A COBBLER TO HIS LAST.
(To the Editor.) Sir —“Uston” writes about the Graving Dock, pulling to pieces the engineer, and giving his advice about concrete. Now, did he know what he was writing, about? I fancy not. That the Dock leaks, there is no mistake—that the water got under the concrete, is true ; but it is also an undeniable fact that this water could not get through the concrete or stone-bed at bottom of the Dockand the consequence was that the whole was lifted by the pressure (hydrostatic). Other means must be taken to stop this leak besides trying lumps of concrete. Our Province, thanks to inefficient men, is getting a nice name. It is blazed abroad all over the Australian Colonies that we can’t even make a Graving Dock. If a practical man had been at the head of this matter, long before this the Dock would have been tight, revenue coming in from it, and not one word of the leak (a matter of but little moment to practical men) got further than Port Chalmers. I am, &c., Observer.
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2606, 24 June 1871, Page 2
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182A COBBLER TO HIS LAST. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2606, 24 June 1871, Page 2
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