THE WHARVES AND QUAYS RESERVES.

Evening Star, Issue 4203, 16 August 1876, Page 4

THE WHARVES AND QUAYS RESERVES.

To the Editor. Sir, —Obsessing that our City representatives are viewing with alarm the attempt of the Harbor Board ,to get the use of the Wharves and Quays Reserves for harbor purposes, I am very sorry to notice that some of the City Councillors would wish the of Dunedin to believe that if the said were- handed over to the Harbor Board the public would thereby lose the benefit of the revenues accruing therefrom. yfria idea is evidently based upon the presumption that the citizens are not BO much interested in improving the harbor as the City, the reality being, 1 I think, the very opposite; for surely it is very evident, if the question is looked at from an unprejudiced point of view, it must be admitted that no single question of interest is of so great importance to the people of Dunedin as improving their harbor, -to the very greatest possible extent. I am desirous of persuading your readers ■ that of all the streets which it L the duty of the City Councillors to improve and keep in order, there is not one among them so valuable to the people of Dunedin as the street that leads from, Dunedin to the ocean ; also, that the making of a carriage-drive round r. the Town Belt is not nearly so valuable to the citizens as the making ,a drive from the .ocean ; so that such carriages us the Arrawatta, Bingarooma, and even the San Francisco could drive up to Dunedin. The Wei lingtonians know well the very , great importance it would be (to them) to prove the harbor of Dunedin inferior to their own.'

Let, then, the citizens of Dunedin view this . matter in its true light, and instead of looking at the Harbor Board with a jealous eye, let them persuade the City members that the reserves in question can be best used for the benefit of the citizens by being handed over to the Harbor Board. No doubt, the citizens would feel more interested if some of the members of the Harbor Board were elected by themselves (which they probably will be), but that is no reason why they should not be supported in carrying out an object which is second to none in the Province, and positively the first in importance to the City of Dunedin.—l . «m, ke,, James Stewaet. Dunedin, August 14.