HARBOR WORKS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 862, 9 April 1903, Page 2

HARBOR WORKS.

j(To the Editor of the Times).

Sir,—Stick to your engineers. This advice was lately given by a late member of the Harbor Board from another public body upon which he still holds a seat.} I would ask that gentleman if he had stuck to the engineer of another body upon which he held the chair. lam assured that he did not, if so has he regretted the change ? Has he already forgotten what the Harbor Board suffered for sticking to their first engineer, who was heralded here with a flourish of trumpets, until the Government by Act had to withdraw the loan money from the hands of the Harbor Board and thus stop the works. Did ever any public body suffer such an indignity for sticking to their engineer ? Did the Board resign ? No, not one of them. - The Borough Council has recently paid Mr Boylan, C.E., £6O for reporting upon the various local water schemes, and he choose the Waihirere on a false representation that there were two square miles of water shed, whereas there is only a little over one square mile. Stick to your engineers. I say, which of them ? Could not the two tailors of Tooley street have guessed closer than those two engineers have 2 Both calculations were prepared from the same meteorological observe- j tions, and yet they are as fur apart as four is to one. I am safe in saying that I was the first who had ever made any calculations in connection with that stream, and had it been suitable I should have been the first to have brought the matter before the Council. A. Y. ROSS.