CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Star, Issue 16783, 11 July 1918, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE

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representative on the Harbor Hoard. Of coarse, it is the merest irifio, arid I would not dream of ,; rubbing it in" by .mentioning the fact that* the portion of tho harborkido winch has u-ver h;ul a chairman tho Harbor 1 Board is tho only port of the hnrborside ! that has, in a maritime sense, proved of | any particular value during the Empire's i crises of tho present war. i But let mo hurry to admit that Port Glial mera at one- time did have three rs- ! presentatives on the board, although it now has two. Even that reduction from three to two ha* a, quaint side to it. However, there are more quaint things than that .in the world. Somo people oven think it is quaint that the Allies were not more ready for tire Huns' outbreak—and that is a matter of ren-lly serious Importance. What does it matter whether Port Chalmers over hr.d a chairman-member on the Harbor Board? What does matter is that Port Chalmers had certain shipping facilities which hampered the Huns m their flight for a place in the. run. That was really worth while. When another 44 year-j have elapsed, perhaps someone reading the ' Star's ' reminiscence column will notice that at the close of the groat war the went in for a drastic c.nango of policy—-million-pound experiments wore discontinued. A harbor-development policy on practical lines was introduced (though not without opposition), and tho deepening of the harbor on rational lines was put. in har,d. Thir was attended with such micce-33 that Ota go Knrbor rapidly developed tho second largest trade in the Dominion, and easily -added to its already established reputation for superior shiprepairing, its equally extensiv« and unsurpassed reputation for shipbuilding. So, what does it matter who js chairman of tiro Harbor Board so long as Otago Harbor is not unduly delayed by local jealousies in realising its important maritime destiny as one of the very best seaports in tbe Southern Beaa.—l am, etc., *r- T.S. Port Obailmecs. July 1&