Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10498, 14 December 1903, Page 4

Correspondence.

(To ,tihe Editor.) Sir, —'Gait' you inform- me wh,y it> is thai the as. Tiaaiwha and the Waimaa'ie in comiing into the river *o their advertised! first calling place to land passengers for Thames! and EJopu, also landing goods, that they never 1 Mow a whistle ml 'Ciouniinig from Aucsklaind, but on the return trip from Paafoai tHiey do blow the whistle when .they 'hw& got notlhingi to lamd, only -for at vacant passenger, who has teen waiting isome .hours for the steamer to get on board for Auckland. I Iknow i«t one time the old steamers would try and. do a. quick passage in slingingl the paroels of Star papers on to the Kopu Wharf without stopping the steamier- Thait ended in the parcel -soanetimiesi going sharib of tihe w&rl and going &v«rlx>andi when the steamier would hi&ve to .round' up and p:dk up the floating parcel andi then get •baiaki to the wharf to land it properly, which .if done in fcto first place would have.®aved; all trouble .aftid such dplay. Only ai few days ago there was a 561b boix of butbeir ,to be landed!, andi the owner, was not there to time. Kb whistle blew; ihe, therefdre, was late down:. The steamer had gone, but the butter Was found on. the mud. Some nine ipounda were in the bos; the r»*t washingi, up against the timiber along the bainks of tiha river- Now what it the use of tihe 'shed. Why iwuldl not some one keep the key. Mr Smith, who hais only .one armi, would, no douibb gladly do amy kind ■of world like that, for, he lightsl the lamps on the wharf, and .could do suchl work is this. But I ...don't /see whait the sawmill ' company's , night watchman wants down the wharf aneeiting steamel's when, he ought to be looking after fihe duties he is well paid for.—l ani, etc-, -BREAD AiMD BUTTE'RI Kopu, Deoamber 11th, 1903. Wo have deletedi a portion, tf our cori'es.pondent'6 letter, which, we oonsidef of a perw&al nat^r©,—^Editor-)