WANGANUI RIVER DUES
ABOLISHED ON WOOL CHAIRMAN SPEAKS OUT From Our Oicn Correspondent TAUAIARUXUI, Thursday. The Wanganui River Trust has resolved. by a vote of six to two, that the collection of sixpence a bale river dues on wool carried on the waterway shall be abolished. During discussion on the motion, the chairman, Mr. J. M. Burnett, said: “We have gradually frittered away our river dues until we have almost nothing left. We have taken them off timber, stock, and other things. If we take them off wool, it simply means that we will have nothing to collect at all, and we will have to go through all the formalities of gening an Act of Parliament passed.” The decision to do away with the was arrived at in the interest of Wanganui business, and in the hope that it would make the river a successful competitor against the tendency to increased transport by road.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 833, 29 November 1929, Page 10
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