FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1030, 15 August 1911, Page 3

FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD.

FEILDING’S ATTITUDE. In Saturday’s issue of the Feildiug Star, the following letter from Mr Edtnd. Gcodbehere, Mayor of Feilding, appears: — “ I have been looking for a report in your paper of the meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board held in Palmerston on Thursday last, at which the very Important question of the proposed rating area for a loan of ,£20,000 to purchase the Foxton wharf from the Government was discussed. As your readers are aware, the proposal is that Feilding shall be included in this rating area, and the amount for which we are to be held responsible is £ 100 per annum. In the Palmerston press our representative (Mr Harford) is reported as having stated that the scheme was not properly put before the Feilding Borough Council by me, and, further, that ‘ with a very few exceptions the people of Feilding were strongly in favour of the scheme.’ Now, sir, in putting the matter before my councillors I pointed out the danger of assenting to the borough being rated to support a harbour at Foxton, the benefit of which to our ratepayers would be a very doubtful quantity ; indeed, it is quite possible that the harbour might be a danger to our interests in Feilding in the future. My view was endorsed by the Council and a resolution of protest was carried against our towujbeing included iu the rating area. Mr Harford’s statement that the Feilding people strongly favour the scheme is a most extraordinary one, and I cannot allow it to pass without protest. I venture to say that if a poll was carried on this question it is doubtful if half a dozen ratepayers in Feilding would be found to vote for it.”