HARBOR BOARD ELECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 5

HARBOR BOARD ELECTIONS

TO THE EDITOE. y Sir, —If the present condition of ou#f wharves in to be taken as a fair criterion for advancing the claims and advocatingthe return of the gentlemen selected by the committee of the Citizens’ League, then 1 venture to remark thqt none of their candidates can. hope to obtain the j necessary votes which will again placo f them in office for a further term. At the, present time there is something like on® mile of wharfage at Dunedin, and in tho whole of that length there is not one decent berth for the accommodation of a passenger steamer, for, should one of these vessels moor at the cross-wharf, pas-> senders have great difficulty in either' leaving (he ship or hoarding her, owing to (he fact that the approaches are lumbered np with cargo of all kinds. J'nrtiiennoiv. it is not generally known’ that many parts of the wharves are very unsafe, so much so that the railway authorities will not allow any of their large engines to run on the. Kitchener street portion. Again, the watersiders hava not filed the board that unless improvements are at once made in connection with Victoria wharf vessels in future will not be worked (hem, brorn time to tima the same watersiders have called upon th® Health Department to scud its inspectors along, owing to the, unsavory condition of affaire on and adjacent to tho same wharves. And in tho near future it is ■ their intention to insist upon tho cervices . of a tOl catcher. The old wooden sheds at time" swarm with rodents. It is men* tinned by the board that there is ampin , (died room, and that there is no congest i lion of cargo. That is not wreck, for E am in a position to prove decisively that on several occasions ships have had to remain at Port Chalmers waiting a borth at Dunedin, and on another occasion tho. Kurorniko had to remain idle two and a-r half days waiting to get alongside tlmoml dump. ' Mention is made in an illustrated circular sent out by the hoard soma little time bade that there is ample up-to-date equipment in the eheds for workings The only equipment that is noticeable on Ibe wha rv.-ri in* shells is main strength ■ and stupidity; Irish navigation is L the [ most conspicuous feature in evidence. I Whole volumes can bo written about tho ( deplorable condition of our water ] would very much like you to pay it ffl :: personal visit so that you’could really fee, for yourself what we in Dunedin have, asthe result of. the efforts of these of public spirit, proved ability, and ripe experience.. In conclusion, 1 chain \ lenge any or all of tho Citizens’ League ■ to debate with me next Tuesday night j the refutation of any part of this letter.—«l I am, etc., Willi.ata Brown, .Secretary Dunedin Watersiders. —1346, April 2/.