PICTON’S BIRTHRIGHT.
The Mayor of Blenheim at a recent public meeting (says the Express)- declared that one of the reasons whieli was keeping trade from the Pic ton route was that Picton had sold its birthright—the harbour —to the Railway. Department for £2,000 and he declared that the port would never be any good until the harbour again came into control of the people. As an instance of the imposts which the Railway Department made on the people at Picton, he asserted that the Department got a cut .of 6s 9d per ton of every ton of cargo which came in. They would not allow Picton people to proceed to the wharf in their own carts and obtain delivery of goods, but insisted that it must all be loaded into the railway tracks and taken from the ships to the railway sheds. Till the people of Picton got over that, they would never get the best use of their port.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2546, 22 February 1923, Page 2
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160PICTON’S BIRTHRIGHT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2546, 22 February 1923, Page 2
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