HARBOUR BOARD REPRESENTATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 30, 4 February 1903, Page 2

HARBOUR BOARD REPRESENTATION.

Is dealing with the figures published in the Ilawera Star o-i Monday ««• in?, we bad no means, on account of the late hour we received the Star, of checking the figures. Yetterdty the Otairmao of the Board supplied ua with the following figures, ob'aioed by him from ths offi :o of the Bo ird, and it will b i seen that the figur.s which appeared is the Star were, with one exoee'ioo, incoirsct:— | Published Oorreet figurts. figures, £ t «t,ratford ... 1,520,8*6 1,556,W6 H were 2,032,(66 1,926,694 'b'>uthT»ra«aW... 300 034 4M.UT North Taiaaalci 404,684 1,821,079 Clifton ... ... 484 '.63 498,872 N.P. Boroagh ... 866,652 8M,«12 It will b) urged that this does not tniter Ml, affect the question, bat we say the Inequality, if any, is, Ist, not important; and 2nd, is inoidenteJ to 'he adopion of a ward or riding system in rew ojuntry where value* increase so rapidly. The .Star further comprint of improper distribution of the Government nominees; but if, M he Star cl dm', it is right and proper, tha G iveroateot sho lid h*ve the right <>f nomtattioo, it wiull oertiialy be unfa'r t> lie them down io the matter of 1 c.lny. Bvjn in that matter there was nothing to complain of, as one of the nominated m-mbers resides at New Plymouth, the other at Inglewood, «nd the o'.her was a Tikoraogi reident The popular idea down Hawera way is that all the nominated mem'era members live in N,w Plymouth, whe'eai two of them were typicil couutry settleis.