THE HARBOUR BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 226, 17 September 1908, Page 2

THE HARBOUR BILL.

The New Plymouth Harbor liill is now law, lor it was put through its final stages in the Legisiativ Council yesterday without amendment. It is really a •mailer for surprise and gratification tiiat the measure has come through the ordeal in (he sea th less way in which it has. From the very beginning the. promoters have been beset with dillicultios —dilliculties, indeed, which at times, seemed insurmountable, due trouble would lie goi over and then another would crop up, and with this disposed of, a larger one would be encountered and had to be overcome. Few outside I the promoters and those working with them can have any appreciation of the hardness of the row that had to be hoed and the extent of the work Unit has been dune bv those at the head of a Hair-. Tn rami ki owe. a great deal io tl i. and Mil.- f.lel. we I'ccl sure, will lie iw.gni-ed a, time noes „ii and reveal, more plainly than' i, possible ~„«• the beneficial re-ult, of iheir labors. The next thing lo do is to give ell'eci to the Kill ami make arrangements for the holding of the poll. We believe the promoters will lose u o lime ill striking while the iron is hot. No doubt the matter will be settled at to-morrow's nicotine, of the Hoard. At miv rate, we hope ii will. \\\. ha v.. little 'misgivings about the result of the poll. Katepayers are now alive to their best interests, and can see that the completion of the harbor extensions out of loan money instead of out of ordinary revenue is Hie only proposition worln considering, relieving them, as it inns:., from the payment of any future hirbov rate. or. own at its very' worst, if trade does not increase at all for the next eight years a most unlikely conliugency 'reduce their rates t„ a skeleton.