LACK OF APPLIANCES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 188, 16 August 1901, Page 3

LACK OF APPLIANCES.

(To the Editor of the Times.) Sir, —Your correspondent, Mr J. Jcunc, is cither totally ignorant of the state of affairs at this port in regard to appliances for re-floating vessels that go aground, or else he is purposely endeavoring to throw dust in the eyes of the public. He states that the remarks appearing in the Gisborne Times were uncalled for, and adds that appliances could have been procured in Gisborne to have taken the Ururoa off the beach last Monday at latest. If so, why was it not done, and why on earth should the captain of the stranded scow have to telegraph to Auckland and Napier for a cable ? Why should the To Anau have tc leave a line behind on Wednesday morning V Mr Jeuno says it is more than fifteen years since a vessel was ashore here, but surely he must have a very bad meniorv. I have lived by the beach for the last fifteen years, and can recall six or eight incidents of vessels meeting with accidents and requiring assistance. No one wants the harbor authorities to lay in an expensive stock of appliances, but surely they might invest in a couple of Manila lines and a few fathoms of chain. It would, in my opinion, be better than extending the wharf up to the bridge, and undertaking works of a doubtful character. —I am. etc.; 7 Yachtsman.