CORRESPONDENCE. WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD NEW BY-LAW.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2896, 13 June 1925, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD NEW BY-LAW.

(To the Editor). Sir, —May I as an elector as well as a candidate at the recent election, ask a little of your space to refer to inaccuracies made by Messrs. Cobbe and Cohen during the recent election. I heartily congratulate the two elected members on tlTeir win, and do not wish in any way to refer to the policy of the Board, or to any other matter than the two inaccurate statements made which are of importance to every elector. In the “Manawatu Standard” of the 25th of April last the present chairman of the Board, Mr M. Cohen, writes: “This means a 25 per cent, reduction on all primary products, butter cheese, wool, meat and hemp; also 25 per cent, on all imports.” In an address to the electors of the combined Manawatu district, published in several papers on the eve of the recent election by ,J. G. Cobbe and Maurice Cohen these words occur. “His” (Mr. Tolley’s) “reference to a reduction on goods such as benzine, oils etc., is unfortunate as these articles came in for the greatest reduction viz. 33 per cent.” My own reference was to “benzine, oils, fertilizers, cement etc.” As the sitting members have not thought it worth their while to inform the electors of the mistake they made, I wish to point out that in their reference to reductions on inward wharfage, both their statements which I have quoted, are totally inaccurate, and that the by-law confirmed by the Board on the 22nd of April, and which came into operation on the first of this month, makes no provision for their promised reductions on inward wharfage, as mentioned I,v these two members of the Board. I am etc. 11. TOLLEY.