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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 423, 1 March 1890, Page 3

The Greymouth correspondent of the Lyttelton Times writes of the harbor there:— “ For seme considerable time large beds of shingle have shown themselves, thereby silting up the berthage of vessels coming to the port, and this has been represented to the Minister for Public Works several times by the authorities here, without any response, except that Instructions were given to the telegraph officers, that any more messages from the same quarter, re the destruction of the harbour, were to be paid for on presentation! Whether the Minister has relented, or whether Mr Blair, in his capacity as Chief Euuineer of the Colony, visited Greymouth on matters of other importance, I cannot say ; at any rate, his presence here was the reason for a deputation waiting oo him to do something, or urge the Government to do something to keep the harbour open. Mr Blair paid close attention to all that was said and seemed fully to recognise the necessity for some action being taken in ordar to make a beneficial Alteration in the deposition of the shingle travelling down the river, or remove the deposition by dredging. The atter was done a few years ago in a successful manner, and the port has been kept open ever since. Mr Blair received the deputation courteously, and assured them that the Government would see that the navigation of the port and the accommodation for shipping should be kept open, and equal to the wants of the trade of the port.” And yet Gisborne, so far from being granted privileges, has owing to the men sent to represent it in Parliament, been actually persecuted, the Harbor Board being harassed in every way.