WESTPORT HARBOR BOARD
SITTING CONTINUED.
[Per Press Association.] Wellington, October 7
The Royal Commission of inquiry into the Westport Harbour Board continued its sittings to-day. Mr Wilson, solicitor, Westport, stated thijt his wife bought Mr Colvin’s pastoral lease, which he sold to Egan, paying £BOO.
E. Gillon, manager railway workshops, Hillersden, considered that the Board’s management of the workshops and railway was grossly extravagant. Where the railways employed seven men on ballasting and maintenance, the Harbor Board employed 18. Ho had seen sixteen men on a pontoon, the men standing in each others way. Mr Wildie, inspecting officer of the Public Works Department, stated that the Board owed the consolidated fund £145,550, on which no interest had apparently been paid and there was only £IB,OOO odd in the Treasury towards, repayment.' ■ 1 : -
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 31, 7 October 1913, Page 6
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132WESTPORT HARBOR BOARD Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 31, 7 October 1913, Page 6
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