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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4537, 9 March 1923, Page 6

A Port for the District. HAURAKI PLAINS RATEPAYERS. Be not deceived by misrepresentation. On a loan of <£60,000 to provide a port with sufficient water to berth Intercolonial and Coastal Shipping, also a Ferry Service, at any state of the tide, between Auckland and Thames, your pledged rate of security would be 3/20(1 in the £. The Board out of revenue to-day can pay Interest and Sinking Fund on £40,000, leaving only l/20d in the £. to-be found by Ratepayers, and it is reasonable to anticipate that with the extra revenue derived from increased port facilities no rate will ever have to be collected. This is the experience of the following Harbour Boards similarly situated. WANGANUI. Spent £389,000. Rate Collected Nil Saving to Farmers Enormous Trade of Port Doubled in IO years Interest and Sinking Fund on Loan Paid out of Revenue. For expenditure of <£60,000 Thames could berth vessels of the same draught as Wanganui. NEW PLYMOUTH. Spent £500,000. Rate collected since improvement started Nil Saving to Farmers Immense Trade of Port Increasing very fast WHANGAREL ' A Dort in the making. Finds its ordinary revenue sufficient to carry on without collecting special rate for loan raised for Harbour Improvements. Several other Harbour Boards furnish similar reports. The following Harbour Boards advise that Overseas vessels call at their ports for the following tonnage Oamaru, 750 tons Napier, 402 tons Timaru, 500 tons Nelson, 400 tons Picton, 500 tons New Plymouth, 300 tons Wanganui, 1000 carcases supplement general cargo. All this is the latest documentary evidence direct from the officials of the ports named. ~ ~ - - ' ' ’ — X X a I ' - <x r T ,0 £? ... 1 5 ' ' 4Ri Acres 1 £ / M //< //-°' // /a// /M // , A •r///A > n re. ‘W / // U >l|sfr.above H-W.M. I J Ot -° S£ 4 D£STfOY£o\ x sotfooc" Il harbour Board l /?£ se rv£ // I U RECLAMATION \ ss, fax//-/ r~~j \ »y aV***** 4 OH \ 1 / // harbour improvements — I I -—I I—-J For the Thames Harbour Board 1 | —1 5 1 100 0 too AOO 600 800 1600 WOO . in h-l 1~l __l=B-gs=< > Scale of Feet The above represents the first section of Mr. Blair Mason s Harhoui Scheme. The cost of this section will not exceed £60,000. Mr. Blair Mason, M.I.C.E.M.I.Mech.E., has advised or superintended Harbour Improvement Works at Wanganui New Plymouth Whangarei . Tauranga Gisborne Wairoa Dunedin and Elsewheie. The experience of Harbour Improvement at other places has been that improved port facilities means extra business to the port, and therefore results in increased port revenue. Withhold your judgment until you have heard the Harbour Board Representatives, who intend placing every detail of the scheme before you at an early date, giving the official facts from The Engineering Aspect The Rating Aspect The Commercial Aspect