MANAKAU HARBOR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1546, 30 August 1905, Page 4

MANAKAU HARBOR.

1 DISCUSSION IN PARLIAMENT. Considerable time was taken up last week by the introduction of an amendment to the Motueka Harbor Board Bill, providing for a Government subsidy of a year towards the maintenance of that harbor. Mr Massey and Mr Kirkbride said that if Motueka was to be assisted in this way other small harbors should be similarly assisted. Mr Massey instanced the case of the Waiuku Harbor. Sir Joseph Ward asked what about Manukau. Mr Massey said that Waiuku was in the same harbor. The Premier : The Waiuku people are very fine people. Mr Massey : It is easy to see that from their representative. (Laughter.) The Premier said that the Government was spending a sum at present in removing the rocks from the Manukau Harbor, and he said that the Government was expending a considerable sum every year in connection with the same harbor. Mr Kirkbride said that the vote for removing the rocks had been placed on the Estimates four years ago, and it had taken the Government all this time to expend the money. As to the annual expenditure spoken of in connection with the Manukau Harbor, well, they had the Government’s word for that. The Government in any case took all the revenue. The Minister for Public Works said that the delay in connection with the removal of the rocks had been due to the fact that no reasonable tender was obtained until recently. As to the revenue 'from the Onehunga Wharf, he said that last year it amounted to only /147, as against an expenditure I for the same period of /TOO or /'7OO, j