WHARF ACCOMMODATION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9493, 15 August 1891, Page 6

WHARF ACCOMMODATION.

[Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, August 14. Some thirteen or fourteen members waited on the Premier to-night with reference to the want of wharf accommodation at Pictoa. Mr C. H. Mills, who was the principal, speaker, referred to the growth of the shipping trade at Picton during the last twelve months, and said that better accommodation for shipping vvas an absolute necessity. He asked the Pfeipjer to place tho sum of .£OOOO (which, it waa estimated, a new wharf would cost) on the supplementary estimates, bo that; the work could be proceeded with at once. He contended that tho subject was one more of Colonial than local importance, for he understood that, if decent accommodation were afforded at the Picton wharf, the Union Company would run a daily steam service between Wellington and Picton, and thus the North and South Island would be brought into daily communication with each other. Mr James Mills, manager of the Union Steamship Company, who formed one of tho deputation, said that the Company would be quite willing to run a daily service between Picton and Wellington if reasonable wharf facilities could be obtained at Picton. In reply, Mr Ballance undertook to communicate with the Railway Commissioners, in whom the foreshore ia vested, and see what could be done to meot the case.