OUTER HARBOR SCHEME.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2120, 1 July 1907, Page 2

OUTER HARBOR SCHEME.

THAT INCREASED REVENUE,

MR. LYSNAR EXPLAINS.

Under Saturday’s date Mr. W. D. Lysnar writes as follows: It is to bo regretted that before you wrote your loadin'' article yesterday (Friday) on this matter that you did not acquaint yourself with the classification of the Board’s figures quoted by you. You have jumbled them up undei one heading, as being “Estimated increased revenue to be derived from proposed works,” and then'you go on to say the Board should have prepared a statement showing increased revenue under one head, prospective increased rovenuo for rents and growth of tlie port in another, and the saving to shipping in another, so as to have a separato decument for each head. -

Now,, if you will turn up your issue of the 26th inst., and read your report of the Board’s meeting, where they adopted the statement, you will; see that the very thing you blame the Board for not having done, you show there as having being done. The statement is divided under three headings: Ist, Estimated increased revenue to be derived from proposed work, which includes the saving on river expenditure and extra. port charges ; 2nd, direct saving, including saving on lighterage on foreign imports being landed at Gisborne instead of at other centres; and . thirdly, incidental increase which includes the extra rents to be derived from Tauwhareparae revenue through development of the district. Why you should have mixed all the tliree classes of figures up under the one heading I cannot understand. , v W. DOUGLAS LYSNAR.