HARBOUR EXPENDITURE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 16 February 1935, Page 9

HARBOUR EXPENDITURE

TO Tj£E EDITOR Or THK PRESS. Sir, —In a leading article the other <Jay you ask the question "whether ell harbour boards should be free to spend %vhat they like and pursue what policy they like," and proceed to answer it in the negative. Surely it is rather significant that the question should have been raised in your mind by the proposal of the Timaru Harbour Board to go in for a scheme of improvements. You will correct me if I am wrong, but I do not recollect that you have ever suggested control of harbour expenditure on the many occasions when the Lyttelton Harbour Board has offered you the opportunity. What is sauce for the gander is evidently not sauce for the goose. You can rest assured that your fine magisterial air and your nicelychosen quotations from the authorities will not deceive anyone south of the Rangitata. If you think it better that the Timaru harbour should be converted into a bathing pool and the shipping which now comes here di--7 verted to Lyttelton, why not say so instead of clouding the issue with ® > solemn nonsense about the need for co-ordinating transport? Incidentally; you do not seem so keen about transport co-ordination when you are discussing it in other contexts—Yours, etc., TIMARUVIAN. Timaru, February 15, 1935.