THE PATENT SLIP.
To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross. Sic, — In your issue of this morning you have fallen into an error with, respect to this slip, which, unexplained and unrectified, is calculated to do injury both to myself and the mercantile and maritime interests of the port of Auckland. You say that the slip is too small to take on a vessel of the dimensions of the steamer ' Wellington ' (366 tons gross measurement) ; this is a very serious mistake, the slip being really capable of taking up a ship of 1,000 tons. It is perhaps necessary to explain that with all slips there is one main carriage, to which are attached, when required, shorter carriages, technically called ekes. I have had time pnly to complete the main carriage (120 feet), and one eke (40 feet) is now in course of construction. Till this latter is made, it is of course impossible to take on a vessel, like the ' Wellington,' 150 feet in length ; but, when this and a few other minor details are accomplished, the slip will be fully competent to receive almost any steamship visiting this port, whether intercolonial or inter-provincial. Trusting you wiU give prominence to this correction,— l am, sir, yours, &c, Hekbt Niccol. North Shore, May 2, 1866.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2738, 3 May 1866, Page 6
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