HARBOR MATTERS.
[To the Editor.] gir,—A great work leaves one in a state of contemplation but a heterogeneous mass muddles tlie naind, aod this cannot but be applicable to the former and present administration oi our Harbor Board members. Repeatedly from year to year, meeting to meetin", their administrations have been, for the wellfare of this district, simply a complete destruction of the prmcip.es of the eminent engineer of the past century (Sir John Coode). Had his plans been adopted in the first instance our beach would, at the present time, be without a fence, no groyne would be in existence to experiment upon, and the call for other engineers would need no requisition. Wrangling and bitterness would be lost, and a substantial harbor in existence, “paid for,” instead of endeavoring to reduce the surrounding hills of this district to a plain. Yet it is not too late to start from the original advice of one who has, by repute, surmounted difficulties in other parts of the world. —I am, etc., D. MURRAY.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2674, 2 December 1909, Page 2
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173HARBOR MATTERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2674, 2 December 1909, Page 2
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