CORRESPONDENCE

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 6050, 14 April 1888, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

OUR correspondents are Ireo, ana wo do not hold ourselves responsible (or the oplulous thoy express. Lettera must Invariably be accompanied by the name and address oi the writers, not for publication but lor verification. Wo cannot undrrtake to return unused manuscript,)

THE THAMES HARBOUR BOARD,

(To the. Editor.)

SIR,—I take it for grunted that the Minister for instructed by the Atkinson Ministry, who ,are but the tools of ~" the power behind the throne," and curse of every honest man in N.Z., will graut Messrs Bagnall, Read, Biair, and Co., their request to rule the Thames River for their own profit, and again to make it a common sewor, aod receptaple j of tailings, sawdust, snagß, and rubbish, with power to avoid payment for benefits received, and thus put a liitle more money into the cofferß of the wonderful institution, But even this _ injustice should not require the'resignation of tbo Thames Harbor.'Board, and the giving ud of our valuable foreshore endowments, the result of which action would be to find another billet for some goat, who would take his pay and do nothing. Rather let the Board insist on the River Company taking charge of the whole of the river, and confine their jurisdiction and expenditure between Shortland and Tararu, removing all buoys and beacooß leading to the Thames River, let the conspirators have rope enough, and the upcountry people will soon find their beautiful river in such a state as will require heavy taxes to make it navigable again, Io the meantime if our Harbour Board could divest themselves of the local jealousies of Little Pedlington, and make a wharf at Tararu, where steamers could call and land paßsengerß when the tide did not suit at Graharastown. It would be a great public convenience, at a small cost, because it would ensure regular communication at a certain time every day for mails and passengers, and give this place very great assistance to progress. It is the present uncertainty of the steamer service, and very slow speed of the only one steamer which dieguats strangers and residents olike.—l am, etc, SHORTWP.