ACCESS TO THE SEA

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21707, 14 February 1936, Page 20

ACCESS TO THE SEA

TO TH* ■DITOB OF TBB PRBSS. Sir,—ln your article on access to the . sea this morning you merely ~ likened the two interested deputations to two angry bees engaged in stinging each other to death, and you put the case in a nutshell when you said that the sooner the obsequies of one of, them were over the sooner the survivor would get a chance of Government hearing; and the Minister said practU cally the same thing. Our city, being one of the garden cities of the world, is fortunate in having its seaport appurtenances over the hills and far away; yet, through the two tunnels it will be handy enough. The rapid development of motor road transport has put a second tunnel right in the forefront as one of the next best necessary things. The possibilities of the estuary are many from a sports and playground point of view; also, in the matter of health. The iodine emanations from tidal estuaries have for some years been recognised as having peculiar health-giving properties. So, a port in the estuary, besides being a small white elephant to be kept groomed and dredged, would be another instance of man's" tendency to mar and bungle the gifts nature has given \ February 13, 1836.