NEW PLYMOUTH.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3163, 18 August 1881, Page 3

NEW PLYMOUTH.

August 18. A meeting was held at Waitara last evening for the purpose of considering the present state of the harbor question, especially with reference to the report of the Parliamentary Committee on the New Plymouth harbor, when the following (which was an amendment to a resolution) waa carried by four-fifths of

those present: —" That the colony has pledged itself to carrying out the New Plymouth harbor work;", and upon the faith of that pledge very many persons have settled and invested in this district, both in the purchase of Crown lands and otherwise, and this meeting is of opinion that the stoppage of the harbor works would be a gross violation of public faith guaranteed by legislative enactment, and would inflict an injury on tbe whole district." At the meetinjr, which was the largest ever held at Wairara, there were persons from all portions of the provincial district. The matter was fully discussed, when it was conclusively shown that the figures quoted in the Parliamentary report were wrong, and amongst other things it was stated that in six weeks time, .the cement for the works which is expected to arrive in Wellington from England, can be landed at the end of tbe breakwater then completed by vessels of small draught, also that with the town plan on the ground the breakwater can be extended to 21 feet of water at low spring tido for the money now in band. The preseat Superintendent of Works was engaged on the Aberdeen breakwater, aud also successfully built tbe one at Arbroath, and before leaving the latter place was presented with a valuable testimonial for the successful manner in which he carried out the work, and therefore speaks from experience. He states that the work can be done for the money, and (he Harbor Master says that for three hundred days out of the year vessels can lie alongside the wharf.