Originally Posted by
craic
My plan is much simpler. Purchase a lage area of hill farm area behind Gracefield/Lower Hutt. Create a large track directly down into sea. Move mountains down the track and reclaim a few hundred acres of sea complete with a wharf capable of taking four ships. Set up the reclaimed area as a container wharf/storage area. Charge shipping companies and related others half or less than they would pay for berthage, loading and unloading etc., in any other main port. The flat land, created by the reclamation of the hill area to be leased to manufacturing companies at cost (of the purchase price)and prioritised on their ability to employ and export. Overseas companies who wanted to produce goods for NZ onsumption would be on the bottom of the list. It then becomes economically viable to supply some of the Auckland market from Wellington and much more profitable to supply the remainder of the North Island from there. Then the rest of the world would realise that New Zealand is not a suburb of Auckland.