THE HARBOUR LOAN POLI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 275, 14 November 1908, Page 6

THE HARBOUR LOAN POLI.

To the Editor. Sir—Will you allow me apace in your widely-circulated paper to urge ujiob ratepayers the necessity of recording their votes on the loan proposals of the ■ New .Plymouth Harbour Board on Moa* day. Not even the question as to whom ■ we shall return to represent ua-in Pw liivmcnt (important though this be) to half so important ae tihe proposal* to lie submitted to the ratepayers on the 10th. If a mistake he made'in eel acting our representative that can be ree.tified in three years, at the longeit) but. if a mistake is made on Monday* - it is possible many oT us may not live to see it jiut right again. The question to decide is: Khali we renew the old' ■ loan, with an even liability of three- , farthings over the district and no provision made for improving the j port, or shall we adopt lie BarbouP Board proposals, raise a Joan sufficient ' to' (pay off the old one, improve tie port sufficiently to accommodate oeua liners, and at the same time reduce OUT \ liability! 1 It would appear that tmt on* . answer to such a. question were po*<... sible. Yet we know the answer not bo unanimous. The fact that *uck men as Messrs. Maxwell and Marx-f|| both of-whom joined the Harbour Board * with a fixed determination to protect i the country ratepayers' interests, and j neither of whom would be content with** out probing the anattcr to the bottom—are advocating the present proposals, ( ought to lie assurance enough for the.; most timid. That an artificial port can be successfully constructed is proved by $ Timaru, which is such a success that body there regrets the money Apent OH', it. The nibble work at Moturoa fan';.' withstood many a storm, and evejy year adds to its stability. On this score J no hesitation need be felt. Dredgbg Ims to be carried on in every port, |n lintnml harbours to quite as great an ; extent in in artificial harbours, as any* one who has been in Lyttellon, Wei- < lington, or. Auckland must .know. What, i then, are the objections! Surely the ' most fertile district in the DomittlOßi wit,h a railway in progress to open UJ> an immense area of new country, With j a demand for manures that must la- ;; crease at a rate few even dream _ ot now, and with the increased production these manures will cause, can offer sufficient. inducement for ocean liners to g call. And think what this mean*. Your < requisite* at Auckland or Wellington , price*;' thirteen .shillings per ton lee* : for your manures, an improved market, for your produce, and the greatest ta-, petus to the progress of the district s since the inception of the dairy tories. Can any one begrudge the small'' loss of time taken in going to poll for' such objects! Nothing one could do would pay half as well. Do not think, -< ■' Oil, it will be carried without me," A' large majority in required to carry tieV; proposals, and do not risk their by your neglect to vote. If you do,i,; you may regret (when too late) fatal mistake made. But regrets aXe.'j vain. "Act! act! in the living present/'?; and trust no future, but make sure yoor| object bv everyone polling oa Monday.—"' 1 am, &c„ • JAMES BCHOE6S. '] Warea, November 12th. |j