TARANAKI HARBOR INQUIRY.
A BOYAL COMMISSION. (Telegram from our Correspondent.) Wellington, Monday Night. The Select Committee of the Upper House is continuing the inquiry into the Hawera petition against the Taranaki harbor scheme. The funds of the Taranaki Harbor Board will probably be impounded by Government in order to stop a project which was sanctioned without adequate official knowledge, and which is now likely to bo stopped as an impracticable waste of public money. It is remarked here that, in the event of the Taranaki scheme being stopped, a portion of the funds will be applied to harbors on the West Coast that are capable of improvement at a comparatively small expense. The application which is now being made from the Patea Harbor Board, for a farther loan to complete the breakwater, which is commonly spoken of hero as a most successful experiment, may be met by taking from Taranaki a portion of the funds which had been erroneously granted to the New Plymouth schemeIt is thought that the Waitara river might come in for another portion of the same funds. The large plant brought out from England would have to be utilised elsewhere, and the Government would no doubt find a ready means of turning the machinery and material to account.
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Patea Mail, 3 August 1880, Page 2
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