THE HARBOR BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 4316, 27 December 1876, Page 4

THE HARBOR BOARD.

; To the Editor. Sin;--I hope the effects of your leader in a late issue on the harbor works will be a tittle salutary on tEe present Board. It seems they are to have another meeting yet before giving up the ghost. They haye never been a good working body, taken •ither in the-light of business tact, technical wisdom, moral force, or common sense. They have quibbled and quarrelled when they should have been doing work. Many months good time have been lost, during which all the different parts of the working plant should have been getting ready and affording work for hundreds of idle hands ; for even if the system proposed for the landing of the dredgings was not the best, still it is surely better than nothing. But the Board thinks otherwise—at least it affects to think so—and in its dying moments it would like to saddle its own crotchet on the incoming Board. Surely this is anything but wise or just. If they make a contract aceording to the engineer's jplan, they leave that officer responsible for ft to the new Board; but if they enter a contract on a trumped-up plan of their own, whose to be responsible ? If the Board is really conscience-stricken for the time thty have wasted, and wish to make amends with a little hurried work, in ihe name of common sense let them do it. They have been harrowing the bar, and with aacli agricultural proclivities why don't they try a double-furrow or drain plough to make a, channel with? Or, I shall give them the benefit of an invention got up for the occasion: Let them get about nine miles of light .two-inch lead pipe—Burt Brothers can make it for them. Fill the pipe with dynamite, lay it in the line of the proposed channel, and fire it. By this means they can have their much-desired channel before the end of the week, " and leave their print on the sands of time." Bat, in sober earnest, I would suggest a trial of a charge dropped on the bar and fired when the tide is ebbing, and I'll make it my business to be there to watch the effect.—l am, Slc, Ocrorus. Dunedin, December 27.