DUNEDIN HARBOUR BOARD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXI, Issue 7177, 29 February 1884, Page 5

DUNEDIN HARBOUR BOARD.

[Per Press Association.]

DUNEDIN, Feb. 28.

A gratifying communication from the Union Steamship Company was read at this afternoon’s meeting of the Harbour Board, in the shape of an intimation that the Board’s operations in facilitating the bringing up to Dunedin of vessels of deep draught had met with so much success that the Company would be prepared, at no distant date, to make Dunedin their working port, instead of Port Chalmers, and bring all their vessels up here, provided that the Board supplied the necessary wharf and other accommodation. A Committee was appointed to report on the question involved. A letter was read from the Napier Harbour Board to the effect that in view of the disasters which had of late occurred on the coast of the Colony to large steamers, it was necessary that such steamers should he provided with coastal pilots, and that the attention of the Government be directed towards the matter. Mr Cargill thought the suggestion an outrageous one, and that it cast a monstrous and unmerited reflection on the coast, which was the easiest and safest for navigation in the whole known world. The letter was minuted as read. The Dock Trust Committee recommended that the dock be constructed of 500 ft length instead of 600 ft, with provision for future extension. Several members expressed the opinion that the reduction of length would be false economy, and it was agreed to consider the whole question at a special meeting.