The Premier at New Plymouth
The Wanganui Herald explains the Premier's speech' anent the Taranaki breakwater. Our contemporary referring to the journels which inadj' ad versa criticisms, says: — They seem to labor under the impress on that Mr Ballauce gave his hearers to understand that the - Government was favorable to relieving them of their responsibilities under the Taranaki Harbor loan,' and to expend further monies upon the breakwater itself. What he did 1 say was that he was agreeably surprised to find that the much decried breakwater was 89 , useful a work and had secured so good a harbor for the trade of the port, and that it only needed a moderate further expenditure-to m ike it | equal to those at Oatnaru and Timaru. j Had Mr Ballance told the people of Taranaki that they have a claim on the colony lor > equal acreage to that taken, from them out of their Harbour Endowment lands, he would have been within the truth, but he did not ; nor did he tell them that they had a genuine grievance through this land being, depreciated in present value through . the, alteration of the land laws of the colony in the interests of settlement, which; he also might have done without violating the truth.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 123, 9 April 1891, Page 3
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210The Premier at New Plymouth Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 123, 9 April 1891, Page 3
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