PORT AND CITY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 11 February 1927, Page 11

PORT AND CITY.

TO THE EDITOR or THE mC33. Sir, —Referring to the above 1 must ask your leave to refute tile last paragraph in a lengthy communication from the "Port and City Committee" in thi.v morning's Pjjess, in which the writers declare that a vehicular tunnel arid the freeing of the wharves oiler the "onlv means for Canterbury to obtain freedom.' 1 etc., etc. The alternative to spending tho million and a half or thereabouts in this direction is quite obvious, and need not now bo laboured. Wo have, tho example of Manchester before ns, in which tho jirinciplo involved is almost exaetly > identical .with ours. Tho difference ,in population hardly applies. In both cases tho cities ore, or were, losing trado relatively to other cities, and Manchester, by the course she took, is now tho third port of Great Britain. Let us therefore profit by tho examplo sho lias set and do in our small way what sho has done in her largo way. Breadth of view and clear vision are at this period tho prime attributes required.— lours, etc., BEFEJREE. February Oth.