DEFICIENT HARBOUR ACCOMMODATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 102, 11 March 1864, Page 3

DEFICIENT HARBOUR ACCOMMODATION.

Ax instance occurred yesterday of the great deficiency of wharf accommodation which now exists, indeed the utter impossibility of providing it at all for many of the vessels of the large merchant fleet which now rides at anchor in the harbour. Three barques and a ship come to anchor yesterday afternoon, and at sundown a large ship supposed to be the ' Scimitar' from England, and another sail were in sight outside. '.the new T which is now about to be added to the. wharf will afford sonic little accommodation to the largest class of ship in loading and unloading, but increased facilities might be afforded, and we seriously enjoin the attention of the Provincial authorities to this matter, if they wish to secure for the port the character amongst shippers which it has hitherto possessed. There are other portions of the city, from which wharves might be as easily carried out as from the end of Queen-street.

We would refer the mercantile community of this city to the remarks made by Mr. Vine Hall at the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce, which we lately published, " that the port which would provide the greatest facilities for wharf accommodation, docks, slips, &c. —would necessarily become the port of call for the Panama steamers."