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Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1920, Page 4

WANGANUI* LAMENT,

Says yesterday's Wanganui Qteonielet iear niter year ratepayers have been assured that everything possible #« being done that should be done to give Wanganui a useful harbor. Whet f> we now find? That worse than nothing has been done. Time and again the Harbor Board chairman has totljrhwi at the reports that New Plymouth MS making a deep sea harbor which woujd very seriously menace Wanganui'g sto«V pins -prospecte. But despite the bun* terand pooh-poohing, New; Plymouth to-day has a deep .sea harbor, and~ W»< nganui is offered the humiliation of W ceiving from the New Plymouth Ob«l. ber of Commerce a request that WtriljV' mii should make use of the Taraqakl I' o /' 1 in order to promote oversew tr*de. VVhat is to be thought of a fl«bo* Board that has landed the town and: district in such a sorry position?' In,it unkind to suggest that before an* *»<, tier serious work is done the l&tbw Hoard leaders should be asked t» resign? Over their heads may well be written: *Wene Mene Tekel Upharsin."

Dairy farmers in the Auckland di* tvict are anticipating a record seaMtaa far as production is concerned. Th» managing director of the New Zealand U-operative Dairy 'Company, Mr. G. Ooodfellow, stated that the WW*atO farmers were milking an inereasad number of cows this year. Tito eubrtrntial increase in the price of. butttff-M Was responsible for the addition* to tile herds. Feed had been rather abort at the beginning of the season owing to iha late frosts, but pastures were- how* waving on splendidly as a result of »»»t warm rains, and there should be a ' flush of feed from now on unt dry weather «ta in. Writing to Hawera on September 28/ asking for two lamps to be sent to him in Auckland, in view of the gas and coal shortage, Mr. Wilton J. Whit* »yk—"Our gas h to be cut off again this week. Trimiß have stopped—i-oal and wood practically unprocuvabb—coal that wx% ' oueo used :u furl i- now Wins worn a*