COMPLIMENTS FOR WELLINGTON.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1518, 14 August 1912, Page 5

COMPLIMENTS FOR WELLINGTON.

Sir, —1 am an Aucklander, antl am bound to confess that up to the present time I have bseu numbered amongst those one-eyed people who imagine that the "Queen City" leads the universe. I have been here a very short time, having only ■trrived' on Friday evening last, consequently I do not feel qualified to compare the-'two cities generally, but I have wen earcfnllv studvi.ns two tilings—your streets,'and yiiur wlmrf accommodation, particiilarlv (lie hitter, and 1 will return .to Auckland with fit leaM two ideas less than when I left it.' Touching your I want to siy thi=./Ilwt. so far a=. the streets tliam?.clvf.« arc concenter], ttu-v do not compare favourably with our t Auckland,strests, V.ut in the matter of i paving • and. clranlinw tbwo- is only one i in it,'and that ii Wellington. >"ow for I vour vliavfags accommodation. I cm paji TCir Harbour Beard no greater'comph-

incut iliau to say (hat if Wellington bad thy Waitemata Harbour here, judging from what I have seen, (here would be wharfage accommodation for I he shipping of Hie whole of (he Dominion. I, have livver seen such pruvi-ion made for all classes of shipping as 1 see here, and if (he Auckland Harbour Hoard, before Martini; to spend (he enormous sum now being spent, had inspected and copied the plan of (lie arrangements here, then .Auckland would have had something to l.n proud of. As it is, slus nnist play seesnd liddlo again. It wounds my vanity, sir, to have to admit (huso tilings, but I hope I am broad-minded and generous enough to give credit where credit is due, and as 1 have previously stated, I will go back to Auckland a deserter from the "one-eyed" brigade.—l am. e(c.. PERCY M'ELWAIN.