OUR HARBOUR WORKS. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1908, Page 3

OUR HARBOUR WORKS. TO THE EDITOR.

! Sir, — On? of the finest master strokes of policy of the past was Disraeli's pu--chase of Supz Canal sharps. Much of Britun's subsequent success hung upon that transaction. Coming nearer home, the work of Sefton Moorhouae in . constructing tho Christchurch-jLyttelton tunnel was another splendid achievement; but had the master ininds been swayed by the public &taeh bold- strokes would never have been perpetrated. We are now face to lace with n magnificent project for Wellington Harbour, launched by some of the members, of our Harbour Board. It involves a cool million qf money, 'tis true: but let it be shelved, and we shall have 3 vh id view of the ! huge mistake in the nfar future. Could } our forefathers have seen the Wellington of to-day in their time, how different would have been their plans. Shall we wilfully shut our wfh to these lessons, and go on blundering and pettifogging? 1 If mistakes have been made, we- uucht to take tlie shortest cut lo set th?2n right. All around us can we fcce th<* hick of foresight. Land now wanted for reclamation has got rnto private hands, when it might have been carnMrked yp.irs ago, nnd so on, nnd so on. — 1 im. etc . PETER ELLIS. Wellington, lutla February, 1908.