HARBOUR BOARD AND WOOL.
We congratulate the Wellington Harbour Board upon having "turned down" the proposal of its chairman (Mr Fletoher) that the wharfage charge on wool be increased by threepence per bale, and the charge for dumping be decreased by threepence. The proposal was obviously intended to benefit the Shipping Companies- at the expense of the producers of the country. If the Harbour Board has been put to -expense in providing: a<yoommodati«ai* a f6r wool, that ia : sorely to the advantage of the "port rtselif,. and of the Dominion as a wßx>le,. The greater quantity of produce that leaves the Dominion, -the larger: will* •be the imports' of merchandise and the better will it be for the sKJpping' cbmpanies. What the Harbour Board loses in one direction, it more- titan recoups in another. The policy of penalising the producer to gain air advantage for the Shipping Cbmpanies is not one that will oommend' it■self to the rural population. Fortunately the strengthening of oountry representation on the Hnrbonr Board has onabled this attempt to saddle the producers with m extra burden to bo frustrated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 July 1913, Page 4
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184HARBOUR BOARD AND WOOL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 July 1913, Page 4
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