Progress

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 66, 1 December 1888, Page 3

Progress

We are always grateful for good advice or advice well meant, whether we accept it or not, and we have only thanks to offer our Feilding contemporary for the suggestions offered in respect of the conditions affecting the prosperity of Wanganui. With the remarks touching the Harbor improvements, we cannot agree, for it is to the port Wanganui must look as the means by which a future is to be realised. But even the Stab recognises this fact as the one recommendation it has to offer of a solid and practical nature is the establishment of direct communication with Sydney. And it has here hit the mark. Tins is just what is needed at the present moment to open up a large and profitable trade, which would at once establish Wanganui as the commercial centre and capital of the West Coast. The advice is so good that we not only receive it with thanks, but urge it on the attention of the commercial community, hoping that instant steps will be taken to Sfive effect to the recommendation. — Wanganui Herald. Thus the Herald on Wednesday. Next day, we find the following : — " It may interest the Feilding Star as well as our _>wn readers to know that Mr Hatriok (Walker and Hatrick) has practically .losed for the. purchase of a fine three masted barquentine, 300 tons carrying .apacity, to work the intercolonial trade from this port. We may have something further to say on this very important matter later on." And so will we in the direction of assisting Wanganui to take its proper place as a shipping port.