Lyttelton Harbor Board.
[By Telegraph—Press Association.]
Christchurch, last night. The annual report and balance-sheet of the Lyttelton Harbor Board states that the financial operations during the year have been satisfactory, the excess of revenue over expenditure being .£17,320. This will be required to meet the demand for extension of wharves and jetties, in consequence of the increasing trade at the port of Lyttelton. The total increase of receipts as compared with the previous year is .£6823. The Chairman, in his report, said it might be well for the Board to consider whether, in the interests of the Canterbury public, it would be advisable to obtain information and report as to the feasibility of constructing a harbor at Sumner in conjunction with a canal to Christchurch. Other members of the Board, however, did not fall in with the suggestion, and said it should not have been inserted in the report. The idea is really the outcome of a feeling in Canter bury that the charges on the railway lint from Lyttelton to Christchurch are exor bitant and should be reduced, the assertior having been made that it would have been cheaper to build a canal than to make a railway tunnel through the Port Hills.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 335, 7 February 1902, Page 2
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