GREY LABOUR BOARD

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1920, Page 1

GREY LABOUR BOARD

CABINET’S PROPOSALS. At last night’s meeting of the Grey Harbour Board, the correspondence included a letter from the Prime Minister, in which Mr Massey set forth the Cabinet’s proposals in reference to the future control of the Board. These are as follows: 1. Grey-Brunner railway to be taken over; an annual subsidy of £15,000 to he paid in lieu thereof, to go in payment of interest and sinking fund. 2. Railway Department to work wharf the same as at Wanganui and other places. v 3. The Board to be authorised to make charges, wharfage, etc. 4. existing 'accumulation of, 3d coal rate, to be paid to the Treasury for interest and sinking fund advanced. 5. A Harbour District to be eonsti- j tuted. Rating powers to be granted to ‘ pay interest and sinking fund, if the j subsidy and rate of coal prove insuffi-j" cient. , 1 6. Legislation to he introduced t give effect to these proposals to operate as from April Ist, 1921. . i The Chairman, Mr Steer, said that he would move to defer consideration of the Government’s proposals to a special meeting. He did so because, ly. three was not a full meeting of the j Board that evening, and secondly, because members were not yet fullj r conversant with the meaning of Cabinet’s proposals. In tlie meantime, _ he said, the Board could make enquiries as to the svstem of control at Wanganui, and thus" ascertain what the Government really intended. Tlie motion was sefc conded by Mr McLean and waß carried,.