HARBOR MATTERS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10625, 2 June 1897, Page 4

HARBOR MATTERS.

Sib,— Yon are serving a goad purpoßO in opening your caimans fore freo dlicuoslon of mattcro in connoction with tha Kapler breakwater. I cannot imaglno a more etupendons folly thnn the atrncture whioh now Blonds— I moan at least only partly stands — aa a monument) tin show how the tatepayets have been befooled in the attempt to fight the Pacific. Of oiuroe, In a matter of thla port we must always hold thosa reoponslblo who are wieldiup the administrative powers. A great deal has been made of the administrative abilities of tnn present chairman, bnt hao the Hswke's Biy district banctitcd In any , single degree by the display of thoeo alleged good qualities? Wbo were the men in power 'who oanld hivvo idvanoad this district in years j;one by '! I need not reply. There la not a &bgle work in this district by whioh tbe pnblio have benefited where those same admlnlstra- - live qualities have been exerohed. Uoder the old regime the Interests of Hawked Bay were trod nnder foot by the very men who oonld have helped no. Did they do «o? We have had qnite enough of the oldsohool. That "old sohool" hna left us the breakwater expenditure to hand down to a future generation. And yet when a ohairman is wanted nobody is bold enough to oome forward and take np the reins of office; not because ability Is wanting, bnt beoause the Impress of tho old regime has been so Implanted npon everything of a pnblio nature that he wonld bs a vßntursome man Indeed who would care to solve k the Intricate problems that have been set by those who held oifioe in the past. In Hawke's Bay Bver to piospei ? Never the " old school" remain in power. H^Btad yet we have it inggeßted that Mr Bhonld be trnated with tbe duties |^H^ohalrman of the Harbor Board. Mr I^Hwtier, by the Lord I Yonr oorreaponRobert Price, knows what he is H^H|m? abont, and he haß the reapeot of ■^^^^Kklng men in the dlotriot by hla H^BBB^Kpreesloa of opinion, What are to when snoh an office as that of a Harbor Board goes to think of the H^^^Hn'a Bay. Unleis the " old H^BJ^HJ^^Bn np and a new system ef 8 b'anght into operation remain a fifth rate H^HHH^^^Alt l 'o amblgnonß It In for don't like to tint my terms for fear that my H^HB^HpTliQd a haven in tba editorial basket.— I am, &0., HHf Another Country Settler, Ist, 1897.