MR FIELD AGAIN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9642, 14 January 1899, Page 5

MR FIELD AGAIN.

r*,-~Li saying' that SirJ. Coode twaßt waB ieip'tf if fhis 'profession; you should■j^iaea^in' S6utb'-Africa'," ( ;aa his fs'eemß^ utterly; imkno&h-at 'Home, jp_oji'drthinlc..,yp_!could mebtjon a $Enf!lhti?!»bVk ■' with which ■ h"e " was cbmieoted'^Timaru' harbour is only:fr|m,siltmg''W by "persistent dredg&ncl.'the'pier'at'Taranaki'waß hardly jilted before the sand piled up against iljtlifeaiehe'd to'Kury it d«cenlly; ,To snfc this; a stona wall was constructed 'i^th"e frßh'"ore-;f r Bh'"ore-; to the Moturoa Sugar pwitb Vyiew to divorting the coastal past tfio'ena of tKe pier. Nodouht s>t»k'haßliad,this effect to some ex|syet'the eand lias climbed over it, j Si «^ f .filJea'in,.the' intervening space,, ana fsjjain;th\reafens,to'bury tb,epi6ri'B6 that Mt.;'iB Inow')i'rlspDsea1 now')i'rlspDsea to break large gaps fitnfougli'toth.'Bfcructurca to allow the sand g'ttf;p)W^ffeely:V'lt is true/that vessels like gth'e'Glenoifl can still lie, alongside the pier #prpteot6dl>y"the bend at its extremity," cx T ggceptf^auring N. or N.N. W: winds ; but how Epong.tnis will Jbe "the case is a questiou. . I ||^as:;nbTaware~tbat Mr Reynolds had been ||here more.than once", and only saw a'pro-p|sß,of-his report. - When I was in Glasgow IFm&ugu'st,'' 1844, 4 I was much interested in With&fyorks which had not been long in proH e all that was contomffipjatea|was to enable 600 ton Vessels, such pww^re'usetUri the , West India trade, to ||reaoh'.thy Brbomilaw i hut; some, gentlej^menAwbbmJ.l?'met,at ,the' house 1 of my Sfriend Mrßae. Wilson,- cf Kelvin Bank) Sfßaltl that if i what -Waß being done proved ("Itiofcewitxl andvlorger .vessels were put on »4tW-?s7eßf India, trade; as' was;. likely.-Jthey ©-Vould'prpb'ably have to do more. 'Such a p'qefelopmeptrhqwever, as has' now taken ■^plaqe^was not' thought of by even the most jßißanugine^Lcloubt if Glasgow then conlsfaia'earmany,more people than "Auckland as the place was jff-ftr"'*! great -extent' the' port of Paisley,' vsvas",imiohv svas",imioh smaller than now. pill-on^ too.'as aj shipbuilding material had (rv'only.'been, -' recently been' introduced,' and advisability" of; using it was doubted, @, s 6\ving*to anaclea which' prevailed that the fßfeamorPresident.whiohhad been lbst with all lxands^on her first trip to America, had improbably ; buckled and j broken .her baok l^whenMjetween two waves, and so foundered^ is thtf certainty that our river &'o6ula.<p'e "made a better harbour than' the tf»Clyae>t"far less', than 1000 th port of the Sfcost; I ; which, makw 'me urge this being &ft6h.o'hl feel sure that if the money which fcauring.all these years has been sent out of $Mhe'placb a"s interest and sinking fund, on g.thV-SGO.OOO- loan, had been applied year by jfyeafrtojhe" improvement of the river, the &7ork"wouldbynowhavebe'enaccpmplißhesi efif '.there is 85. ft of water upder Castlecliff,' Sfjnow'is'lt that there is less than one-third Wot- "that 'depth on- tha flats ? Surely you ipffiustrßee-.that such a fact is fatal to your that "tb> deepen ''tKe * channel a Pquarter of ft milo beyond Castleoliff so as the'Suiaana Stormßird to get in 'jseancL'out at low water would cause a |Kcleepening on 4he' flats. ,Our river has worse ana worse all along, .-owirig^ entirely to" the causes which I yTho (Clyde-side, of 350 tons, -sj^which'* brought .the first settlers heroin >£jB4IJ was hove'tfown ana haa the barnaoles j-TMjra'p'ed off her on the -hard Bhelf under v-Tayloryillefand "about 1855 a stilly larger ilvessolCwas '.loaded with kahikatea and i twatai spars "for Sydney just below where Kobertson now lives. The '^Alexandra steamer, , which brought tho here "in 1864, landed them a below Balgownie, and a vessel called, £ s *lJfchink,'the Maori, which had come direct s '",fro'm-;England ander the z command of -^Oaptain Tadd, ,was lightened at the same !0! 0 place, and then camp 1 up to the wharf. ■^ A' vessel oalloa the Keera,,too. which one i>of ■ the' officers tells me drew ton feet, >- v tr«iled here regularly for some time till '".'the Shallowing of thelflats obliged her to '* discontinue her visits. - All through the also far .larger steamers useato "^come'herplhan ao so now. In tho face £"of such facts as these it is absura for any '5, one' to assert that our harbour works are {Mother than a failure, and that it would be ~ -wise 'to continue on the saino lines. Any j5/oorcaa tip a lot of stone into the water T^icad arrange it in lines, but a. man needs -^scientific knowledge to be able to judge "■"whether suoh a work will do good or harm. f"i£-I a'ra, eto M ' \B> 0. Field, C.E*

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