A DREDGING PROPOSITION IN IRELAND.
English statesmen have shown on not a few occasions that they have very hazy ideas in regard to overseas geography. That they are not altogether too familiar with the geography of the Emerald Isle is also revealed at times. Mr Hazleton’s story of the dredging ot Woodford Harbour is a case in point. On one, now historic, occasion, an Irish member rose in the House of Commons and gravely asserted the Woodford Harbour was just impossible for shipping on account of the harbour being filled with sand. Dredging, he continued, was most necessary. The Chief Secretary for Ireland (the Hon. Walter Long) said that the matter had not been brought under his notice before. He was in sympathy with the matter, and assured the Irish members that, knowing, as he did, that Woodford was such a fine port, the dredges would be seut, aud the great port of Woodford saved. The Irish party kept the debate going, aud at the end of the sitting a vote was taken. By the following morning a staggered House ot Commons learned that Woodford was an inland town over thirty miles from the sea.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1008, 22 June 1911, Page 3
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195A DREDGING PROPOSITION IN IRELAND. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1008, 22 June 1911, Page 3
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