HARBOUR FERRIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1913, Page 7

HARBOUR FERRIES

POSITION OF MANAGER CAPTAIN CAMBRIDGE APPOINTED. The Eastbourne Borough Council last .night held the final meeting to consider the recommendation of the Ferry Board (Mr. W. J. Organ, Mayor, and Councillors Pilcher, Button, and KeHy) with t©gard to t<he appointment of a manager forHhe municipal ferry service. The meeting -was held im committee, and today the Town, Clerk, Mr. J. D. Avery, announced th*at the council had decided da the recommendation of the Ferry Board to appoint to the position Captain D. A. Cambridge, who is at present employed by the borough as captain of the Duchess. Captain D. A. Cambridge is a native of New Zealand, having been born at Sunnier, Christchurch and is the (second eon of Mr. A. B. Cambridge of that city. Ha took up the calling of the sea in 1899, and, in sailing vessels, voyaged to all parts of the -world until 1906, ■when ho held the position of second mate. He then joined the Union Steam Ship Company, and served in various vessels of that line during three years.-' It is interesting to note that Captain Cambridge was for some time on the illfated Penguin, and left that vessel just in time to hubs the trip on. which the disastrous wreck occurred. For two years he was captain in the Lyttelton Harbour ferry service. During " that time he received an offer from Wellington to join the Duco on a trip to the Chathams, but he declined the offer. On that voyage the Duco was lost •with all hands. Ini January, 1912, Captain Cambridge joined the Wellington Harbour Femes, Ltd., as captain of the Duchess, and when the Eastbourne Borough Council took over the service in September of this year he -was made senior captain. The certificate he now holds is & foreign-going master's "ticket." € ~ CITY RESERVES REMARKS BY THE MAYOR. At the banquet of the South Wellington Methodist Literary and Debating Society last night the toast of "The City of' Wellington" wag proposed by I Mr. J. Castle, and responded to by the Mayoi (Mr. J. P. Luke). 'Referring to the Town Belt in the course of his reply, the Mayor said lhat when the city of Wellington was laid out. in London in the year 1839 by the New Zealand Company, 1100 acres werdf set aside for the city itself, but owing to the ignorance of the people responsible regaroing the topography of the place, all the high land was set aside for reserve. The reason for our narrow streets was the fact that in the original plans no area was set aside for streets, and when the omission was discovered the company graciously allowed" 100 acres of the 1100 For streets. There nad been a deal of opposition regarding the leasing of Town Belt properties to sports bodies, and he instanced the tennis court near Constable-street. The people who leased that acre of land were bound to fulfil certain obligations or the acre with all improvements would revert at onco to th» City Council. Was it not a better thing for 80 people to use that acre for proper recreation than for it to be the grazing place for horses and cows'? It had been his idea to make tennis courts at Newtown, near Mount Albert, where there was sufficient land for tennis players for all time, and where it would be possible to hold world-wide tournaments, but the difficulty lay in its inaccessibility for practice purposes. The council had, however, reserved a piece of land in Piriestreet which would provide nine courts at a cost of £2000. It waa essential that the membership be 500 strong. The .rental would be £65 per annum, and the benefit to citizens would be apparent.