AKAROA WHARF.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 599, 11 April 1882, Page 2

AKAROA WHARF.

To the Editor.

Str,—l should like to ask Mr A. I. McGregor, who was chairman of the first Wharf Committee, and who drew up the different reports, and settled on a tariff which was no sooner advertised than several objections were lodged against it. Who was it tried to stuff it down the throats of the other members that they were a Ear or Board, and could make their own bye-lawe, which, by the bye, were nearly all copied out of the New Zealand Harbor Act ? Who was it who agreed to a charge of 2s per ton on all cheese or produce landed on the wharf, or exported over it, and a charge of G.I on every parcel that any of the .farmer.* or others look along to their boats or the steam launch, as if they were not sufficiently handicapped already in getting their produce into the market, over such roads as we have in the district, without these additional charges. He than goes on to say that an effort should be made to educate the Council on the subject. I may remind him that too much (-duration is sometimes an affliction irisstoad of a blessing, which seems to be the case with him, for his condu.-t since his first connection with the Cou u;il hag been most inconsistent. From knowing this I should hr.ye thought Mr McGregor would be the last man in tho Council to rush into print on borough matters. Hin fiix-and-eightpence worth of advice abosit tho Alcaroa Wharf Ordinance will loquiro to be taken cumgrano sails, like a good many of his other suggestions.—Yours, etc.,

SAVANT.