WHO DID IT?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 26, 20 June 1914, Page 4

WHO DID IT?

. CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE. NOT TO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. MR. O. E. BELLRINGER PROTESTS.

"It is an injustice to the Board," said Mr. C. E. Bellringer at the meeting of the New Plymouth Harbor Board, in reference to the attitude of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce with regard to the Union S.S. Company's improvement in the running of boats between New Plymouth and southern ports. ■Mr. Bellringer went on to refer directly to a leading article in the Taranaki Herald of June 8, in which he said that the whole of the credit of the improvement for better shipping service was given to the Chamber of Commerce.. The matter was first brought up, he reminded the Board, by Mr. Wilkinson, and on his suggestion a conference was called, of which, as a matter of courtesy, the president of the Chamber of Commerce was made chairman. The editor of the Herald had followed the attitude of the Chamber of Commerce, and had given no credit to Mr. -Wilkinson or to the Board. Mr. Wilkinson, as a matter of fact, had made two special trips from Eltham on tlie matter, and the chairman of the Board had offered to put £SOO into a rival shipping company if necessary. If it had 'been left to the Chamber of Commerce nothing much would have been done. One member Bad opposed the movement because he was agent for a shipping company. It was amusing to hear '-the president of the Chamber of Commerce saying "he wai glad they had accomplished somothing." The Chamber had done nothing except to join hands with the Board, the Tradesmen's Association and traders of New Plymouth", Inglewood, Stratford and Hawera.