THE HARBOR.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 64, 19 March 1901, Page 2

THE HARBOR.

(To the Editor of the Times.) Sir, —The man who will do the most good for this district will he the one who will get an Act passed to authorise a new loan for building a deep water harbour, under the supervision of experts appointed by the Government, as it is quite clear that the local nondescript Board will never do any good—their incubus has already cost the settlers over £‘400,000 without permanently adding one inch more depth to the river, not even by that shameful and apparent trick of raising the tide gauge five inches! We have a so-called Chamber of Commerce; Commerce without a Harbour! Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? These commerce gentlemen have turned their back to the sea, the highway of commerce, and faced the Motu bush, and have barked up the wrong tree ever since. We have also a useful and energetic body in the Beautifying Association. If we could get an equally energetic and intelligent body to lie called the Utility Association, the progress of Poverty Bay would be assurod. —I am, etc., A. y. Ross.