CAPTAIN BENSON'S EVIDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 900, 2 October 1866, Page 5

CAPTAIN BENSON'S EVIDENCE.

To tho Editor of tho jN'e'.v Z::h.axi> li'uiiAX.n. Slit, —I perceive in your issue of thin morning a report of tho evidence yiven by Captain Uenson, Manager of thu P. N. Z. & A. it. ?>[. Company, to questions put to him by tho Postal Committee of tho House of liepresentativoji at Wellington. "Oh \ that mino onemv would write a book !" Captain Benson doo3 not write a book, but he gives his evidence, and here it h : —Wellington is the bo>'t port in Sv\V Zealand." f.'oiv for any man, i;9j»i:oiiil!y u P'lblie man, in the employ of a public company —the Manager in fact of thj P. K. Z- & A. Jt. AT. Company —to exhibit an utter ignorance of tho harbours of this colony ia something' eo that X look again at jour report to make nnro that 1 ti'ii not mistaken. . And j efc .1 «>o thl» :— " Q'leation —Mo you consider tho Buy of lahwis a good place of call-for steamers i 1" " Answer I have m InouhJw of the J),„, of Islands ' • Well, lu*, wo will be content to let Captain Benson enjoy bis opinion, tli Lt "Wellington i:i the best port in .New Zealand/' so long an ho confesses ihut h j knows nothing of tho history of the colons, and ot' the other harbp.urs in New Zotdand—in fv u .t', to long us he can boa.it " I have no knowledge of tho liay of Islands Question ; it Captain ISonson has no knowI ledge of trie Buy of Islands, of what port in Now i Zealand has he any knowledge ? except, ot' course, the porf of Wellington, " the beat in Zealand" ] la thero a schoolboy at tho antipodes of these little island? ol Nov.* Zealand thai/ eould not givo Capt&in Benson some knowledge of the Hay of Islands ? Arid id the Captain's ,l icj7o\v]eds»' > worlh anything to a Royal Mail Steun Navigation Company in the 19th ueiitury Y Ilia "no knowledge " is, I suspect, worth sonietkiug to our friend* in the Shaky City,— Jlouw, &c., October 1, ISGG* OfiTUa.