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THE NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOUR.

!tus Waimate Witness says":—"The New Plymouth h'rbour rate is a sore thing with many of the settlers of this district, who, at the pr. sent time, roeeive very Jit-le boteflt front the har-t-ou>\ At a m eting <f tie Maia<a branch of the F inner s' Unionon Friday last, a copy of a circular from the recently form id New Plymou'h Harbour Jmprovtment Lvgtti was road, In the d 'Cossion ensuing, ere m:ruber facetiously observed that the circular, should bo tent back to the comrntHejj with the r.comrendat : on that they ■>' rap thems Ives up ia it and then jump over the breakwater. Afioth>r spoakor said that he had to pay £26 annuilly in the way o* N P. harbour rates, f.orn which he gained ab s olute!y co advantage. He would, he felt sure, rec.ive more benefit from the expenditure of this sum if ho devoid ii to the j Farmers' Union. He showed how the Dairy Company bo was asscciated with savei 40 p3r cent by sending their produce through Patea as against the Moturoa port. Another speaker hold, a v.)i y poor opinion of the possibilities of the N-.vr Plyruru'h bar'oour. He sud he thought it would be just as well to start erecting a bretkwa'er in the eei rpposito Manaia : it could prove no more abo-tivo ihm or.e they were talking of expending a few hundred ihou-and poun-ls upon."

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 128, 30 May 1903, Page 2

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THE NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOUR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 128, 30 May 1903, Page 2

THE NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOUR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 128, 30 May 1903, Page 2

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