SMALLER HARBOURS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2159, 27 May 1914, Page 16

SMALLER HARBOURS

WHERE THE MOSQUITO GRAFE CHE-BP IN ANO OUT, ■ In almost every creek and lagooa on the West Coast v?her<» a- shij> could get ii-l a s-hiji. has been. The iii)p.s, it is true, were not large, but diminutive as tfioy -might be, eftou iwovpd several sizes too big for th-u fivers. _ From Westpori the coastal steamer iluifiapapa aisuntaiiis a moiro or liss scrvic* to tius Karsmea β-ivcr, and forms the priaicipal means of eouiluuHication with th 6 thriving settlement there. A- traiijiHg-w»!.l has been built in the rirer, -a-ud a foot v-hatf and two private wharves ciwbed. Aa eld-cst-abHs-hcd trade ig also carried on by ste.aw.er between H-afeitika and Okaritoi Uruce Bay, and the IV rinKa, Haast, and Okijru Rivers, in tho far sohUj cloffii to Jacisqn's Bay. Sax trips a year are usually ma-do m tliis rim, Beiovv J-ne-ksflu's Bay tbo two or three settlers at Big Bay Martin's Bay get a supply of stores by the Goyflrißncut steftmer Bincffioq, <jit lity quar-l-orlv round*. Jflfikson's Bay, frhidi lifts IS3 miles soutitiAresfc o{ Hokitika, is the only wean httr-kmr 'oit ftis coast of Westland, and cottl'd to calivertcd. into » ftrst-clesa port at a comparatively Sin-all cost. It offers gfled shuitor a'lid anclwage, open <j»ly to the nortlj-east, with twelve- foot of water witliiti a few wains of tho shwe. Jacksotfs Head nii-is out about a milo'nftd-a Iralf in a northeasterly tlifeetion from tlio sonthem end ctf the bar. It ia'pes-sihlotiiat Jackson's Bay wiU'oiw day iorm a fxr-oat.ooal port, as indications of cna-1 are found from ttje bay Wfeii.pejilsaka, a elistanno of thirty mites.' Meycwef, there is a practicabfe pass ttirotistii tko jnain ismm to ta-ka Wapalia., aTvid the port in years to come will Uo tho main outlet from this cw&fa'y.' In tho nofth the Heaphy ttad. Littio Wangftnui Rivers can bo'worked, by stenwoM of light <t«mght, and , -paet .years stcamttrs have entered the Tcrcmakiu,. Waitakft, Wfttawa, &ig WftKganui, Waitteto, Arawata> and <sascado JMye-fs, aU of wWuh havo bar en-t-raliccs. Goeds and .jrasscngett can a.lsw be ki.irkd in the roadsteads of Saltwater, -G-iHesp-io's Bnaeh, and Alsbfey Itelss.