WAITARA HARBOUR BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 2

WAITARA HARBOUR BILL.

Tile Waitara, Harbor District Ewloworing Ml .Jennings) came tu or its second leading on 'ihuiadiiv. The lieaourc provides lor the constitution ti a Ilarbor Board district, comprising tortious of the counties of (Jiifton and laraiuiki, with borrowing puwors not .•xeeeding .17000 to rebuild a bridge >ver the Waitara river. Air .Jennings I nformcd I lie House that for the f>ix noiiths ended June 30, the total weight >( beei and mutton shipped from the <ort of Waitara was which vas more than any similar shipments it any other New Zealand port during he s.'.me period. Mr Okey, on beliaif of New Piy-,, uouth, the neighboring port, strongly! opposed the l»ill, because it proposed lo L akr ,U,W.UOi) worth ul' rateable valne ■, I'.iraniki, with borrowing powers not A •ating area. Thus the measure aimed e draight at the progu'ss of New Ply- $ nouth harbor, which was in communb •atiou with by rail,and would nevent the development of tlie port. i Mr Major remarked that he was a j I'aranaki representative who was inrlo- • indent of the two ports, llis opinion i vas that, if New Plymouth people want?d a harbor, let them pay for it. all j he money spent on the Moturoa kir- , tor. Now Plymouth, would not add to he productiveness <>(' the province. Mr Massey said I hat. knowing what lad been done at Timaru in constructng :m artificial liurbor, lie felt sure a aiecess would l)e made of tlie proposal | 0 form an artificial harbor at Now j 'lyniouth, because natural features ,'Slisted the latter project. The Premier remarked that it ap>carcd to him that if the House was to tilirm tlie principle of not allowing levclopment to go oil in a smaller and lounger harbor because another portion >f the district had borrowed money for 1 harbor on the .security of a rate over ;ho whole district, then there would be 10 progress. He was looking at the nnttev not with the object of doing any n.jnry to Xew Plymouth, but from the itandpoint of tlie development of the irovinco as a whole, and the question iroso whether the people of New Plymouth were not deeply concerned with he welfare of Taratiaki ns a whole. ! he people of New Plymouth should be ■mteeted in Tcgard to the original loin, tbe Bill provided, bnt be did not see he necessity for a commission of nriry being set up, as wa° suggested by • ni' v uhn\ If the principle put forward >v the New Plymouth representative iar". been followed in the prist, v nhl havp hern no Onmrmi, Timani >1 1 Port Chalmers.harbors existing ir be South. It was i. god tMn? to fire' lifToivnfc nacy. New Plymouth bud reached su.-f i splendid position of th.v t ennld nflVy:i (o Ik> bro,id-minded ennigh to allow other portions of the -lis rlet such as Waitira and Opunake ti lave the same advantages which ha< »een brought to them by the possessioi >f a good harbor. The Bill was read a second time o: he voices.