“NOT A PORT AT ALL”
Alleged Remarks About Bluff Resented By Telegraph—Press Association-. Invercargill, December 8. The Bluff Harbour Board to-night decided to write to the head office of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company expressing the board’s strong disapproval of remarks attributed to Captain A. R. Charman, marine superintendent of the company for the South Island, reflecting on the port of Bluff. The board is also requesting that the remarks be withdrawn, as they were, declares the board, erroneous and misleading. It was stated at the meeting that Captain Charman had said at a meeting of the Timaru Harbour Board that there was no port in the South Island better adapted as a jumpingoff place for tourist liners than Timaru.
“You take Dunedin,” he is reported to have said. “You could not get those ships in there, and Bluff is not a port at all.”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 64, 9 December 1936, Page 6
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