New Plymouth, Harbor Works.
A BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS. New Plymouth. Saturday. At a public meeting held last night to discuss harbor matters, presided over by the Mayor, the following resolutions were passed That as the Harbor Board is unable from want of funds to protect the harbor works from serious injury by drifting sand, and as its financial position is inainly due to the operation of the land laws of recent years, the Government be applied to to grant Immediate assistance to the Board to enable It to keep the harbor open to its large and Increasing traffic. That a committee of ratepayers [be appointed by this meeting to act as a committee of advice on harbor affairs and to confer with the Harbor Board in urging upon the Government the foregoing resolution, and to appoint two delegates to proceed to Wellington to interview the Government thereon.
It was stated at the meeting that all the Union Company’s steamers would soon cease to call at the breakwater unless the Government gave more assistance to dredge away the sand, which could be don* tor * tew thousand pounds.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 340, 20 August 1889, Page 2
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187New Plymouth, Harbor Works. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 340, 20 August 1889, Page 2
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