HARBOUR BOARD AMENITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 9

HARBOUR BOARD AMENITIES.

The chairman of the Harbour Board drew the attention of the hoard at last night's meeting to a statement in yesterday's Dominion - that certain wool shippers were sending their wool io Napier instead of Wellington, owing to dissatisfaction at the way certain members of tho board had handled flip strike. Air. Fletcher said that ho did not know who was responsible for the paragraph, but tho man who wrote, it did not know what lie was writing about. -Air. H. L. Nathan said that it Was quite true that, wool bad been sent to Napier. Some of his own woo! had been shipped there. The chairman: Ave you tins author of this paragraph? Mr. Nathan: No. , The chairman; It looks; like yours. I may say now that at some future date I am going to tell tho public of tho dirty work which lias been don© by some members of this board, and Mr. Nathan is one of them. 1 know more than you think. Who are tho members of tho board who have not taken up a proper attitude towards tho strike? It is merely an attack on me. Mr. Nathan: If the board bad taken up a more active attitude, the wool might have been loaded a- fortnight earlier.' The chairman! The board, meaning myself. Mr. C. W. Jones said that the chairman had had a most difficult tisk,.ami had tried to sympathise, with both, parties. Several members raised points of order, and the chairman forbade further discussion. Mr. Nathan'; I hope the Press takes notice of what'the chairman says about inc. ' "'■' Thn chairman: If it; doesn't I shall sec that a report is prepared myself..