CORRESPONDENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3733, 18 September 1886, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

« TIMARU HARBOUR BOARD. TO THE BDITOE OP TUB TIJfABTT HEEAID. " What everybody's business is nobody's business" (original). Sib, — I was greatly surpriscdon readingyour report of the Board's meeting held yesterday to see that Captain Sutter had taken the cruel reaponaibility of rofusing tho Oamaru Harbour Board tho loan of 1000 casks cement m their present trouble. Admitting that the Oamaru Board had the Timaru Board with tho dredge Progress that difference should have been sunk, ond they should have come forward like men and Britons and lent them the cement required to ropoir the gap m tho Oamaru breakwater. 1 visited the damaged spot only last Tuesday, which m my humble opinion will take thousands of pounds sterling to ropair. There is another matter I should like to draw your attention to, namely, the engineer's proposal to reduce the size of the manholes m the breakwater. I must

I object to them being lessoned as the I said manholes were tho salvation of tho works during the lato eevero gales by allowing the compressed air to escape ai:d stopping tho work from being blown up or . shattered which it will surely be if tho means of escape are not large enough. Leave wo , alono antl not start and oxperimontali^o with | Mr Goodnll'a successful work. Apologising for troubling you and trusting that an abler pen than mine will take tho matter up and hnrbour affairs m general, I am, &c, Wixliam Colhns. [If our correspondent had read tho wholo report ho would have seen that there was no necessity to lend the Oamaru Harbour Board tho cement. A Btipply could be purchased elsowhere and delivered at once. — Kd. F.if]