THE TARANAKI BREAKWATER.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2301, 18 August 1881, Page 3

THE TARANAKI BREAKWATER.

[PBBSB ASSOCIATION TBLEGBAM.] NEW PLYMOUTH, August 18. A meeting was held at Waitara last evening for the purpose of considering the nresent state of the harbor question, especially with reference to the report of the Parliamentary committees on New Plymouth harbor, when the following, which was an amendment to a resolution, was carried by four-fifths of those present :—“ That the colony has pledged itself to carrying out the New Plymouth harbor works, and upon the faith of that pledge very many persons have settled and invested in this district, both in the purchase of Crown land and otherwise, and this meeting is of opinion that the stoppage of the harbor works would be a gross ■violation of public faith guaranteed by Legislative enactment, and would inflict an injury on the whole district.” At the meeting, which was the largest ever held at Waitera, there were persons from all portions of the provincial district; the matter was fu"y discussed, when it was conclv'ively shown that the figures quoted in the Parliamentary report were wrong, and, amongst other things, it was stated that in six weeks’ time the cement for the works, which is expected to errive in Wellington from England, osn be landed at the end of the breakwater then completed, by vessels o~ small draught; also that with the plaut now on the ground the breakwater can be extended to 21 feet of water at low spring tide for the money now in hand. The present superintendent of works was engaged on the Aberdeen breakwater, end also successfully built the one at Arbroath, and before leaving the latter place was presented with a valuable testimonial for the successful manner in which he bad carried out the work, and therefore, speak : ng from experience, he states that the work o?n bo done for the money. Tho harbor master says that for 3CO days out of the year vessels can lie elongside the wharf.