DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 653, 2 November 1909, Page 5

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

TRADE WITH BRISTOL. v' ; ;Y^A ■ .; ! , . > 5 AND IMPORTANT "RAILWAY MATTERS. ■ , : ,, IDj . Tolesrapb.—fipeclal CorrcgD'indent l "!.v '..... Wanganui, November 1. '. Several important, matters- were dealt with by- tho Wanganui Cnambor of Commtircs today.' In roply. to. a oiroular from, the Bristol Champer. to colonial ohambern, asking for -coi operation .in the,movement toiencourago direct trade between colonial, porta and Bristol, it resolved to do everything iiossiblo in the direction indioated, and to forward certain information , asked for by.-tho Loino Chamber. The question of . differential rates "on tho New Zealand railways was also brought.> up, some glaring anomalies being quoted:' It was pointed out; that; whin: coal is railed from Taupiri to Hawera,: tho proportion of the freight between Wanganui and-the latter"tuVn was only lid. per ton, whereas,, whon sea-borne coal was landed at AVanganni and:, shipped to Hawera, the, railago was Bs. 3d, per. ton. : It .was also stated thatEonie merchants - are doing good business by ordering in Wellington goods that are .' wanted "for . country: ■ a considerable distance away,' sometimes saving from one ; to two shillings per ton in - freight ' owing to the- differential >atesV ; !It ' was recolvcd: "That the chamber considers the differential rates inetjuitablo and' detrimental to tho general . interests of .'.the Dominion, and ' 1 that - tho executive take'steps to- brine the matter under-the notice of. the Prime Minister and Hiniston fOr Railways." : Another matter considered by the chamber was a reply by the Prime Minister' to a recent deputation asking that. Raetihi bo' connected with ' the ' Main Trunk line,' when. Sir Joseph Ward said that ho was. opp'osed: to short' lengths •' of railways leading nowhere.: 'Mr.'-J. T, Stewart,' an -OsI Government engineer, pointed 'out that the i Hno-vm. not .intended for :the. Bitrjinso i the Prime Minister'.supposed,, but as part of | a schomo to:connect \yangahui '<vith the' Main Trunk line. He, ruldod that eeveral. routes were available ;for the railway, which were of an-'easy nattire; to construct, and hot expensive. J It- was. resolved, that :the Prime : Miriistcr arid ( Minister., for Railways be informed accordingly, information to be accompanied by a request to consider tho, promise madb by a former Minister for Public Works to have the : survey ; made, and that such survey bj made' this ;'summer, •' - Tho' ohamber also ; de. : bided "to; draw the attention of tlie member' : for- .the- distriot> to a promise made': by-: , the Prime Minister respecting' advarioes •to leaseholders : under the: State' and- the Maori: Land :Boards, v-ith a view to liaving .'tho' machinery of tho Bill altered to provido for such cases. .