THE AKAROA WHARF.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 421, 3 August 1880, Page 2

THE AKAROA WHARF.

* To the Editor of the. Akaroa Mail. Sir,—Some four months ago the greater portion of the time devoted to the meetings of the Borough Council was taken up in discussions relating to tho Akaroa wharf. (J. W. Bridge, Esq., the councillor who appeared to t.nk* tho most interest in tha ...,,.,,,. i,.,, .s*.u.,» rc-'-igm'd '■;'! if I am not

steps were taken in the matter prior to his resignation. Letters were written on the subject to the Government, and replies received, which indeed appeared favorable to the wishes of the Council. Had the blow been, struck when the iron was hot something might have resulted, and, as according to general opinion, matters could not be worse than they are now and were then, the something must have been—qualified—good.

Unfortunately, however, so far at any rate as the matter to which I allude was concerned, Mr C. W. Bridge resigned without waiting to see the object for which he had been so manfully striving achieved, and apparently the whole affair ia allowed to drop. Can you inform me, sir, of the present actual state of affairs ?

Are the Government going to* hind over the wharf to the Borough? Is that generous body going to hand over any sum of. money, in , any .way* Inadequate "to the amount received by it from the wharf, out of which amount it. bar, never/ '.yHI jrefurided a ppnnv towards repairs ? Ia Government going to retain powe&iion of the whhrf ? Or, once, more arid finally, are matters to be allowed itbrtniairi *5 *!s¥. #° -~ t l ie Government toreceiye the rents, the wharf to remain rbtte&;br 'rWhbi* tp' Be -getting worse day ,by r {» i:^^^'■•®?.^'? r '' , ' t *"? ! ? l A •«j r io** a accidents occur, or'from J jh]e very -exigency ofrthe affair some outsider—be 'it; wharfinger, carter) captain, 1 or merctantr-b'e obliged to effect some temporary repairs, pending the grand solution ? . Apologising for, trespassing so much on your valuable apace,—l am* etc., , , '.J,' ,',, .; INQUIRER: