PILOTAGE OF KAIPARA HARBOUR.
TO THE KDITOR. Sir, —As a shipmaster, sailing pretty often in and out of K. lipara liarbonr, and being able to spe;ik fr.iin my own experience, and also of the inconvenience that 1 liavo s.-en nther shipmasters put to through the insufficiency of the present pilot station, I wish to draw attention to the de tention of ve sels and the loss that must befall the owners, through ships having to wait tide after tide till they can obtain the services of the pilot. 1 no complaint to mike against Captain Lowrie, the present pilot. W.th six and seven vessels entering at a tide, and four out of that uumber wanting a pdut, three, of course, must wait; for, as a rule, there is as much risk, and m-T-, of a suspended certificate after the bar is crossed, and masters will not run the danger of running on the mud flats, and uettii g otf no one knows when. At the present rate of increase in the timber trade at Kaipar i it 13 to the interest of the district that at leist two licensed pilots should be appointed without dJay, for the present detention and loss of time is a source of daily complaint.—l am, &C., CAPTAIN.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5364, 25 January 1879, Page 6
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