Galway In Days Gone By

1920

Economic revival

The facts put forward at the meeting of the Galway Harbour Commissioners on Tuesday make an unanswerable case for the immediate grant of the loan of £200,000 for the development of the docks.

Before the war the Board of Works gave the seal of its approval to the scheme of Sir John Griffith, with which we dealt some weeks ago. The loan was actually granted by the Development Commissioners. Had not the war broken out, the scheme would long since have been completed.

Therefore, there can be no question as to the utility of the scheme. But it is not possible to procure the money from the Development Commissioners to-day, as the Ministry of Transport now deals with questions of this kind.

That Ministry professes itself most anxious to solve the unemployment problem so far as it relates to ex-serviceman. Colonel Newcombe, R.E., who has taken considerable interest in the Galway scheme, sees clearly that a permanent solution may be found by granting the loan for the development of the docks.

The loan would be granted free of interest and would be repayable in fifty years. The resolution and discussion at the Harbour Board on Tuesday must produce some good result if the Ministry of Transport is really desirous of serving the interests it professes to advocate.

It will be urged that Galway has already obtained £9,000. The real remedy, however, lies not in giving doles, but in aiding the City to become self-dependent, and enabling the business men of the West to provide permanently bread and work for all.

Burglars’ favourite

Ballinasloe is becoming a favourable centre for activities of the burglar. In the space of a few weeks almost a dozen houses have been forcibly entered and, in each case, shop goods abstracted.

On Sunday night the most daring episode took place when the licenced premises of Mr. D. Murray, Dunlo-st., were entered and a safe containing £120 removed. The people are alarmed by the growth of larcenies, and a feeling of insecurity prevails as there has been no detection of the perpetrators.

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