A Costly Experiment.
Controversy lias run high at Dunedin concerning the financial straits of the Harbor Board on one side, and the prospect of future benefits on the other, from the great and expensive work of deepening the harbor to admit large steamers up to the city. The Board are applying to Parliament for a further large borrowing power, to complete the extensive reclamation and the deep dredging. We learn that 150,000 tons of goods were imported into Dunedin last year, and it is argued that the saving of railway charges from Port Chalmers by running steamers up to the city wharves will save £30,000 a year on this total tonnage. The figures'may look tempting to those who hope to double the population of Dunedin ns a commercial centre, by, completing the Otago Central railway, and so increasing the digging and agricultural populations of the interior.
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Patea Mail, 5 April 1882, Page 3
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146A Costly Experiment. Patea Mail, 5 April 1882, Page 3
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