RECLAMATION OF THE UPPER HARBOUR

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25437, 8 March 1948, Page 2

RECLAMATION OF THE UPPER HARBOUR

Sir,—Apparently the notion of a large reclamation at the head of the bay has been squashed by the Fryer Report, 1939, so the dogfish in the muddy waters will be undisturbed for perhaps another century unless an adventurous industry tfirns them into fertiliser and liver oil. But a simpler view of reclamation may be suggested —a reclaimed roadway extended far enough to allow of a jetty and a dredged depth suitable for a trading vessel. Such a road and pier at Chatteris Bay would enable the excellent sandstone outcrop to be fully worked and would be a good outlet for various products of the peninsula, not forgetting hardwoods 50 years after Cawthron had done its work* in the matter. A local committee would be needed, and the Harbour Board might agree to get a small-size dredge for the upper work.—Yours, etc., JAS. R. WILKINSON. Rangiora, March 5, 1948.

CHILDREN AND PICTURES Sir, —While I was in Christchurch a few days ago I saw, to my astonishment, a line of children between the ages of five or six and 12 to 15, waiting for a film of shooting, murder, and general crime called “The Assassins.” There must have been a hundred of these children. It* is bad enough that this sort of Hollywood abomination is permitted in New Zealand at all, but what on earth can parents be thinking of that they permit their children of this impressionable age to attend moving pictures that can have nothing but the worst of influence upon them?— Yours, etc.,

MARC T. GREENE, American Journalist. Invercargill. March 6, 1948.