THE HARBOR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1803, 9 July 1906, Page 2

THE HARBOR.

'(To the Editor Gisborne Tints*.

L_ Sir, —In your leading >ri(£*io_ouJ3gdM&. j jg gue -. ou aayTw" femng to Mr Merchant's arrival, “it would be absurd to give a roving com* mission, and equally absurd, having asked Mr Marchant to come to pub $ narrow limit on the scope of the report/’ and you then proceed to say that, all that is wanted at present is how to keep the river open. Is this not putting a narrow limit on the of the report? You. then say the question of an outer harbor is riot for the present. It will be time enough for that when the district is better able to bear the great burden inevitable, until success has been achieved. dqn't quite grasp what you mean by success being achieved. But I disagree with yon when you say that the matter of at outer harbor is not for the present. If wo are em-

ploying an engineer to report q 4 Ifttribqr. , I matters and paying him his fee, £ jay we ’ j want a full report, not only on th® river, but on an outer harbor as well, TRls-is a. ’ matter over which there should' be HO I delay, and as far as I canr ascertain the > I work could be proceeded with without I any increased burden to the ratepayers. The increased values alone in the rating I district will mean a much larger revenue to the Harbor Board, and the saving of £16,000 a year for lighterage would pay the interest on £400,000, more than enough to build us a harbor. What is wanted is Ito curtail the expenses now going oil I attempting to make a harbor of the river which will never be much better than litis at present. If Timaru, Oamaru, New Plymouth and Napier, can carry out their break waters successfully, why can’t we? We have the country at our back and it doesn’t require a fool to look ahead.and I see that at the rato we are clearing bush country and making it capable of carrying stock, that in another ten or twenty years our exports will be nearly I double, and as our population increases, our imports must also do so, and are the travelling public supposed to put up with the present antiquated method of getting on board steamers by tender with the risk of getting their legs broken, or if the sea is too rough, getting carried on to another port ? No, Sir, Gisborne is going to be too big a place to put up with this* much longer, and our Harbor Baard will have to keep moving with the times and go ahead with the making of an outer harbor, and now that Mr: Merchant is here he should give his opinion on that subject ana not waste all his time on the rirer.—Yours, etc.* s HAITI.

I jWe cordially agree with bur oorrespoa. , dent as to Gisborne’s prospeots, and there. , ™ re 18 more essential that the mfetaKee of the past should be avoided, If 11 Ealii” had seen the beautiful gaslight display and taken part in Ibe great jubilation wh en the original -Harbor Aot .was-passod, hewonld not puzzle over the 'words"the' great burden inevitable until sneosss has been aohieved,” Many people know what that means“td .their sorrow, * ; lf anyone' I oan convince us that an outer harbor coaid be proceeded wilth " without anv inorfased I burden to the ratepayers,” onr Warmest advooaoy thereof oan lie assured, That an outer tforJttHUßjt code sooner or later we heartily affirm; bpi lhe Harbdir Board has long sinoe possessed valuable reports on the main oatline)—Sir John Goode's and Mr O'Connor's lot instanoe—and onoe I the ratepayers are prepared fro seek aothority for an outer work, the old reports with modernised -ala oan be tnrned to aooonnt. In tie meantime there are Important delate to settle, sooh as the rating area. the boroagh pay on the present bans, and would that include the extended loroagh ? Would the coast upwards irort Tolsgo be cot oat?' And soon. Oi (Curse if there is to be-no inoreased ra« the position is qaite different, A-general jjport from Mr Marohani would ho‘ , jbofi to give a detailed rport on sn ooter-achema 'Would be on extensive affair,—E»i TiME§jj