ARGENTINE PROGRESS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11498, 3 February 1903, Page 5

ARGENTINE PROGRESS.

to TBa xorroa cur ran nun. ' Sir,—Recently you pnttkhed * etakemnt showing how much more rapidly they built railways in the Argentine titan we can build them in New Zealand. jrbSi k f /uafortunately, not the osty point, in which they outstrip vi. You have from time to time <tanm attention to the fact that tie Lytteltos Harbour Board was totally incapable of looking after the interest* committee! to its charge, and had for years been elmabering peacefully, while our neighbours, Wellington and Dunedin, w>re active, pushing along and rapidly outstripping m. Tα chow 'how they do things in the Argentine:—Baliia Blanca was a few years ago an open bay; some three yean ago it was decided to mak« it a harbour fit for aH eoxts of eHpping, and. in tibat tkne they have dredged a - channel up to the harbour, 164 feet wide, and .having 30 feet of water; they have added A7lO feet of berthage accommodation, with a minimum of'2s feet depth of water, and 900 feet, for small vessels; have erected « shed to' hold 60C0 tons of grain, arid' fitted rt with electrical loading apparatus, cap«bla ol loaduig gram into ehipe at the nrte of 500 tons per hour. „ Can you tell me how many thousand feet of deep water berthag* our Harbour Board haa added to LyUeltaji httbovr i* the laet three ytarr, and mbat lugiWinenta they hare mad* to the loading md discharging facilities is the same itaMf I am Wider the impnewios thai hmUttg cad at* don* in ti»emm nj to-day to Lyttelton a* they w«r» twenty year* ago, but I mar be wrong: ! If w« are to stand »tiU wbile ocr ijonv petiton go ahead, then thtr* to littto dembt the Argentine mn*t beat q» m the race. I see Babia Biases. k to M\feo&. £1,000,000 more in improving tib* jwrt. Ko wonder they get obeap freighi to Europe.—Toon, etc., READER