OUR SMALL HARBOURS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 April 1934, Page 2

OUR SMALL HARBOURS

(To the Editor) Sir, —In view of the fact that the Motueka Harbour Board intend floating a loan of £II,OOO for improving the barhour, is it not time that a halt was called in squandering the ratepayers’ money on a hopeless proiect? If any guarantee was given by the board’s engineers that this sum would be sufficient to complete a successful job the position would be entirely different, but no such guarantee is forthcoming, and it will be the old story of another loan to try and save the money that Ims been “cast into the sea.” From an economic standpoint it would be a far better proposition to seal the road surface to Nelson, and I am quite certain that if this was done, modern motor lorries would land our produce on the Nelson wharf as cheaply as by sea. We could bo included in the Nelson Harbour Board area, and our rates would assist in improving your harbour and wharves, and getting more direct liners to handle our fruit, etc. The work on the Motueka wharf is mostly of a seasonable nature, and the administrative expenses are just about double what they should be.

Anyway what is the use of spending £II,OOO in attempting to control the millions of tons of sand that is drifting up the Bay?—l am, etc.,

. COMMON SENSE. Motueka, 20th April.