THE LOCAL PORT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2104, 18 March 1920, Page 3

THE LOCAL PORT.

DIS(TSSFT) BY FFILDING CHAM HIM! OF gommfkcf. it At Tuesday's meeting of Hh' Feilding Chamber of Commerce, a infer from the Foxton Barbour Board was read, urging n greater use of the port, ami quoting ils mlvantugos. The Chairman (Mr Watson Bramv.ell) -aid he could not sec Imw Feilding could do anything to get an extra ship for Foxton. Probably when Ihe Board improved the river j; would get the 1 railing of an extra boat. The Kennedy us not so suitable Tor Hie river in ils present stale as ilu* (tneen of the Month was. Mr Tolley said the port was almost useless to his linn. The transhipment from Foxton wa.s prohibitive. If ihe wharf was placed wdii,ll a mile of the mouth of the river and the Samhm tramway was cxi'amled to that day Bluff and natural harbour it would help lo make the port of Foxton and develop beach. The Chairman said the Hoard will have to dredge seven miles, whereas there is deep water, within a mile iT'the entrance to the harbour. But, of course, Foxton people would not move their town mil to the Heads. Xo aelion was taken. PILFF.UtNCc HOODS. ■‘My firm.’’ said the President, “has practically cut out Foxton a<min, and is gelling its goods By rail, because of the pilfering Hull was going on over the Foxton route. We cannot say where the pilfering was done—a I. Foxton or Wellington (ml we missed much stock. ’ ‘‘But don’t you liml pilfering on the railway?’’ queried, a member. ‘‘Some, was the reply, ‘‘hut .nothing like what happens by tho-sca route.' ‘Wes, added another retailer, in mournful tones: “You’d have pilfering even if the goods came by aeroplane!