The Bruce Herald. "Nemo me impune lacessit." TOKOMAIRIRO, NOVEMBER 13, 1784.

Bruce Herald, Volume VII, Issue 649, 13 November 1874, Page 5

The Bruce Herald. "Nemo me impune lacessit." TOKOMAIRIRO, NOVEMBER 13, 1784.

€h£vt necessity is felt in Dunedin at the, Eattray street railway sheds for a system of action, both on the part of the Railway department ana that of the mercantile classes who receive goods through this source. In Great Britain, or in any part oi the Continent of America, when goods arrive at the Main or City .Depot, merchants, pass their enixi&s as soon as possible and take them avfiiy. Here the case is different, as" may bs ■een by anyone who may visit our City Depot— : the station yard is littered with heavy articles, such as sheet and bar iron, thrown down any way, three or more people* lots together crossed and mixed to such an extent, as, would require a considerable amount of labor to separate them. Laige piles of General Government railway iron are stacked so as to take." up as much room as possible. Odd lots of other goods are put down here, without order, system,or even care. How it is possible to get the goods delivered after they are set down, seems a mystery, A visit to the goods shed shows a conglomeration of a like nature ; '. the city merchants seem to be making use of the sheds as a store* 'tio'iu«> to the confusion of shippers, forwardj^'ag^ts; and carters, whose a»?MHis faces and empty drl %vs ** seen waftang to get iheir loads/ To ao? tbfe » «* jawfafe* often results in the damage * f 8 00 J ? «"* jnaposition^ of .extra expense on .. • Z> have to rempYe : them. - A salutary cii. . Blight b^ compeHing imparte«|

to pass theirv entries oar^the -'arrival«of£their* goods, at the ; depot, or, in ; case , this ?be not done, charging storage rates, cartage, &c, until the delivery.

we advocate the necessity . for a branch railway- from Mosgiel to , Outram, iWest Taieri, we would desire at the sama time to point out that it is advisable to take into coasideratibu the necessities of the outlying districts of Maungatua, and; Lake Waipori. These supply the Diinedm market per : Outram, with a considerable- 'amount of farm produce, and recieive quantities of goods in return. Besides this, the timber trade of Lake Waipori adds considerably to .traffic from these districts. Three saw-mills are now iv active operatibnV two ! of which are carried on by Tokomairiro enterprise, and it is stated by practical judges that the "Waipori 1 bush has timber enough for twenty years' sawing for three mills. While Lake Waipori has these advantages, Maungatua is possessed of others not unworthy of attention, in iron and antimony, which will of necessity become a means of wealth in course of time. The eastern boundary of this district is part of tlia.t : splendid basin, denominated the Taieri Pl£ia.' J This is, however, to a great extent, swamp, but , owing to the " Company's ditches" (as they are called) it is fast coming under cultivation. There are now no less than one hundred miles of these ditches intersecting the swamp. We may well, therefore, consider the means of transit to market for the outlying districts we have named. A railway extension as far as Lake Waipori would probably cost between sixty and seventy thousand pounds, while an equally useful and far more economical communication, by means of a canal, would only cost some twelve or fourteen thousand pounds, besides effecting a most important change in the country through which it would pass. Supplied by the waters of the Lee Stream and others, besides the swamp drainage, a canal would have the effect of fertilising thousands of acres by irrigation and drainage, while that most important production, European flax and hemp, would find a natural and most productive soil, and our manufacturing enterprise would bring forth other factories at Mosgiel, than that of woollen cloth, as paper, linen, and twine, and the country would effect a clear saving of forty or fifty thousand pounds. The addition of a small sum would place the canal navigation at the command of the Taieri Mouth, and thus increase the importance of the most wealthy section of Otago.