KAWHIA HARBOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1916, Page 8

KAWHIA HARBOR.

A PROMISING FL'TCUE. In the. course of a conversation with an Evening Tost reporter. Mr. George Jonathan, a prominent resident of Kawhia, who wan in Wellington this week, made some interesting remarks concerning the commercial possibilities of Kawhia Harbor. Few Wellington residents, he said, realised what a vast amount of trade? could be diverted to Wellington, which now goes to Auckland, via Onehunga. If a steamer service were established between Wellington and Kawliia, it would only he necessary to load at. Kawhia and discharge here, thus doing away witli the labor and expense at present involved in transhipping to the railway at Ouelumga. Kawhia Ims a fine harbor, both from a commercial and scenic standpoint, and in the near future there is no doubt, Mr. Jonathan maintains, that it will forge ahead considerably more than it has done in the past. In fact, hut for the intervention of the war harbor works involving a very considerable outlay would have been well in hand by now. "With all the vast resources of the Waikato behind it. Kawhia cannot help but come ahead, and I bavc no hesitation in saving that in a few years' time it will irnk equal with any similar coastal port in the Dominion," said Mr. Jonathan in conclusion.