THE WHARF AND ITS ACCOMMODATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4155, 15 July 1874, Page 3

THE WHARF AND ITS ACCOMMODATION.

* The following is the text of a petition now being extensively Bigned by all the leading merchants, shipowners, and shipping officers in the town :—" To His Worship the Mayor and the ' honorable' Councillors of the City of Wellington. We, the undersigned, whose avocation cause them to be constantly on the Queen's Wharf, and who see the urgent necessity for considerable alteration in the rules for management, respectfully request that before the next term commences you will be pleased to allow them an opportunity to suggest what alterations shall be made. It is proposed, should you agree to our request, to form a committee consisting of the various interests employed on and arounol the wharf, to discuss and arrange the proposals for* alteration which may be offered." We hope, having long and persistently urged this question before the public ourselves, that the committee will gain thenobject and have no bandying about the matter, but firmly press their wishes, and havo the wharf, and its management, and above all the system of leasing it by contract, thoroughly reorganised. We urgently want another three or four hundred feet of wharf accommodation. Captain Holliday has made the most practical suggestions on the question, which have been persistently ignored by the Council; and dissatisfaction has been constantly expressed. The committee will as much deserve the hearty thanks of the wholo community if they make themselves heard by the Mayor and his councillors, a 3 they will be failing in their duty if they, do not use every endeavor to get tho full requirements of the port satisfied, now so important a step as is olenoteol by this iufluenti-ally-signed petition has been taken.