THE LOCAL PORT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2703, 4 March 1924, Page 2

THE LOCAL PORT.

TO-DAY’S DEPUTATION,

The local Chamber of Commerce were not able to be represented at to-day’s deputation arranged by the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce to ‘wait upon the Prime Minister and Minister of Public Works in conjunction with representatives of the Pamerston North Chamber of Commerce and Poxton Harbour Board. The deputation is to lay before the Ministers a request that coal be shipped for the railways through the local port and to ;isk for a revision of sorting charges, etc. The deputation will be introduced by Mi 1 J. Linklater M.P. (chairman of the Poxton Harbour Board).

The president of the local Chamber of Commerce sent a telegram to the Prime Minister endorsing the requests to be made for Ministerial consideration.

A similar telegram was forwarded by the Town Clerk to the Minister for Public Works regretting inability to send Council delegates but endorsing the deputation's request to have coal shipped through the local port. It is to be regretted that the Borough Council and Chamber of Commerce did not send representatives as both bodies are in agreement with the object of the conference but owing to the miscarriage of fie finite information, from the Palmerston Chamber, which arranged the deputation, the full details did not come to hand in time to make the necessary arrangements.