HATBOUR IMPROVEMENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 140, 22 June 1898, Page 2

HATBOUR IMPROVEMENTS.

To the Editor op "The Evening Mail." Sir,— Your continuous advocacy of the above subjeot appears only to. evoke a mild correspondence of a, spasmodic or intermittent character, but must eventually develop into a ,more definite result. There is no gainsaying that the improvement is urgently required. In faofc all persons having any interest in the welfare of the oity must be fully convinced u,pon thab poinb. Bu,t they oo^olnde that it is needless to discuss a question generally admitted, sq they complacently go about their ordinary vocations in hopes th,ai> something will happen and brfnij about the desired conditions. ' It is wellknown that all that 13 required to accomplish the above necessity is the liberation of that latent power embodied in the inhabitants of the district, but allowed to lie dormant too long, and to demand that a " Jlarbour Board ' be instituted for the Port of Nelson, with a personnel of seven members composed as foUcnrs :— Mayor, County Chairman, City and Motu,. eka members, ex offieta, two Government nominees, and one eleoted by the Nelson Chamber of Commerce. The endowment ■ would he all the foreshore leases, railway reserve at the port, on the south side of the line, from Frarizen's store. Also all land within the harbour limits to high water mark, Then, but not until then wW the requirements of the port be considered, and the neoessary steps taken to bring about the fulfilment of some praotioal scheme that will render the harbour suitable to modern progress,— l am etc BOVER.