MR FERMOR WELLSON AT PORT CHALMERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6592, 31 March 1883, Page 2

MR FERMOR WELLSON AT PORT CHALMERS.

A public meeting wa* held in the Foresters' Hall, Port Chalmers, yesterday evening, for Ihe purpose of hcaiing Mr Femior WilUon regarding h's scheme for the removal of ctie bar. Tho hll was crowded, an I the Mavor(\lr lines) occupied the chair, Mr)ViLL3ix,i:ialdre-sing the imoting, said that the rpiO:tioti was wnether tho bar coulii be removed or not. They all knew that great things had born expected from tho big dredge and other means which had bco:i adip ed, bat no good had as >C 5 resulted. His opinion was ihit n-> amount, of drej in:', Masting, or boring would be a bitof u*o until the currents Wi-re oonventiMtcd. Mr WUlson then preceded to explain the details of his to the audienco, illustrating h;s meaning by reference to cnarta and dia.'rarus •hichheexhibited. Tho thread of Sir WilUon's discourse wai not very eunnecr.ed, a d was not at all times ea<y to follow. His remarkwere principally explanatory of particular points in t.H plan of operations, tho general schemo of which ha 3 already been nude pub io. This plan, bo \va* convinced, was the only one which would succeed in upe .ing the harbour, it should have been done years a-io, a-ul we should by this time have the Quest port in New Z'if!l:iud. Enough money bad been spent in filcing h'unuiniri, and oilier operation, to have cleared the bar if they liad foil jwed liis scheme. But they would not, beeau-c ho was an outsider. No one ever had so much insult lo bear before in einneetion with a scheme which was brought forward for tho Pa numijcr of questions were then a ked Mr \Vill<on, b'lt the proceedings were ui.sl.v oi a convcrs^tioral a'ld argumeuta:!™ nature. The Siieaker maintained that 40 milli'in tons more water would flow into the harbour by tho execution of his project, and stated that he had uxponm/ntcrl with the cratos which ho pronged to u^c in rivers in Ameri' a. • The proceedings Kcre protracted until half-patt 9 o'clock, but ffoui the n .tine t.f the romaiks and questions it did nor, »e«n that 3lr Willson had sue ceded in making his mjniing pirticnlirly clear, or thiitsuch of his proposals as were understood mot wi h very general f.ivom1