THE NEW DREDGE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2511, 26 May 1909, Page 6

THE NEW DREDGE.

PROVIDING TH£ MONEY. MOTION TO INCREASE WHARFAGE CHARGES. At the ordinary meeting of the Harbor Board to be held on Monday next the Chairman (Mr John Townley) will move : “That in order to raise sufficient funds to enable the Board to pay for the new dredger (ordered from Messrs Simons and Co., of Renfrew, Scotland) without striking a rate, or applying for the release of the ‘unexpended balance of loan funds’ in the. hands of the Public Trustee, the Board decide to revert to the old tariff for wharfages on •mods, etc., landed or shipped from tne wharves, which came into force on December 15, 1893, with certain modifications as per schedule' ’; also “that the Board take steps to reduce the range ar the entrance of the river. Speaking to a “Times” reporter yesterday Mr Townley said that ir the old tariff was reverted to, the Boardls.revenue would he increased by from £o00() to' £6OOO a year, and as the now machine will have to he paid for within a certain period the money will have to ho found by some means either by strikiuo- a rate, or by increasing the vharl i&s Ho considers the latter principle” the most equitable, because the extra taxation will fall upon the community as a whole instead of on a fen property holders, and as an uidiic tax will not be felt so heavily by the *holo of the people as a direct tax imposed upon a few.