NAPIER HARBOR LOAN.
INDIGNATION MEETING TO BE HELD.
[Press Association.] NAPIER, Feb. 12
Interviewed on tbe subject of the rejection of the harbor loan, Mr. Vigor Brown, Mi.P., chairman of the Board, said that ho regarded it as a calamity to Napier in particular and Hawke’s Bay in -general. It‘had set the progress of the town and city back f-or 'a period of years. One of his first acts on taking his seat in Parliament will be to endeavor to make harbor boards elective. Asked if work at the breakwater Would stop, Mr. Brown replied, “Stop! You cannot stop wheels of progress. You make also take it from me that construction of the breakwater, though it may ho temporarily delayed, will eventually go on until the work is completed. In this matter the people arc not to lie trifled with.”
An indignation meeting is to be held on Mpnda-y to discuss the situation.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2425, 13 February 1909, Page 5
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153NAPIER HARBOR LOAN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2425, 13 February 1909, Page 5
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