FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9178, 23 June 1908, Page 5

FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD.

AN,EXPLANATION. ' ' ■ SIRMy attention has beernTdrawiX to ‘ ‘ Yig\liarice|s’ ’ Tetter in your issueof June ,’l3fch,. referring >to posed Harbour Board at Eoxton. I am ' '-tl.iat-jV ‘ Vigilance” is-so . Keen.on rating-''aa it gives me an' opportunity of replying through 1 your. ' widely circulated,- paper. The. Bill- . for presentation to Parlja/" - naent does apt seek, rati ug,powers; but. only asks to be put op the same foot* - ing as Wanganui and -Patea, viz. *'• that the Minister of Railways, passes. over to the proposed Board ail the ‘ shipping dues in the same way as-is-done in the above named .ports'. -The’ Railway Department has iof the' last, thirty years been collecting these . dues and: not spending' any oftjie,’, surplus revenue'; over • Working ex< •’ peuses) on the river; but on the ebn" trary it has been taking help to , ■, swell-the annual-• railway surpluses. • The port even as it is now• is of con- ■ siderable importance to a very: large district, and we are only, asking for a simple act of'justice;, • The present revenue would be sufficient to improve the port. -I would also, tike go state that we,.-, can. borrow for provements against. revenue 5u .the same way as‘Wanganui and -Patea, either of which has no power; to rate. —I am, etc. , -• ,R. ; HENNESSY, * President of Fostca Clfer.ffiber of • ■ Commerce.