THE HARBOR.

Evening Star, Issue 4140, 3 June 1876, Page 3

THE HARBOR.

• Fd ike Editor.

Sir,—-WilEybu allowvme a comer to congratulate the committee of the Harbor Board on thctdOusutesa-like manner with which they have . conducted delegated to them re borrowing the south channel. I am gltfdUdl think there are -some members of the Board endowed* With ft little common (ipjaht ,it would: have afforded Messxtf Houghton grat -pleasure-to employ the Comerang at bonus of. a T couple of thousand added, to sciatclf%b*hßrMi', | butl ani very .glad the committee it. ThS 86<M6r the 'Board - see their way to foUoTfcy.the' advioe of their -Engineer the .will' bC.hn> them and the public. I • am sUßpnsed at the obtusenebs bf/Aome members of the Board regardingi.the r) plans which ony sphbtfiboy'might follow if he saw them, with- the .Engineers report upon them, before him- I. myself can see that if those noanfied the blind channels through the sand-banks would correct themselves. - By studying the formal tion of -.the harbor ■ you can See that ■ the foftna & large basin with tWo ohanffe&, :u the { forming : the bb* . - channels haVc. not sufficient capacity tp fill the basin, hence .the afore, through the banks. All these- 'cMfibCls tend from thC'deep : tb’ fod below* Burke’s upwards" to" the l|toed&';balin,' clearly .shoynng toi my Mr .BuppSpn ’has adopted tke' wisest cbtuhsC for the deep channel. JL Jbieligve Mr Qortfoh prdtasbff'to follow "one 6f these blind Channds irppi thesouth to the north, and thu.jappears to I be the mud banks on whiofi.Mbsers.Tewsley and Eitohie are now vrA.jVA / "it;',! : ; : AQtTABtUS. • Dunedin, June 2. , ..