THE MOTUEKA WHARF.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 190, 2 August 1876, Page 2

THE MOTUEKA WHARF.

To the Editor of tub ' Evening Mail.' Sir -Non vi, sed sape cadendo, gutta cavzt lapidem, and experience; has taught me that .. the only way of getting anything out of ai' Government Department is by continuous and persistent worrying. Muoh has been written about the Motueka Wharf; strong language has been used about it, and on it, " and under it too, by those who like myself on Saturday last arrived at low water.,! But it is not by strong language that the expiring Provincial Government is to be induced to spend its l*st five pound note in effecting the necessary. repairs to Motueka Wharf. Ido not wish to harrow up your readers' feelings by a vivid dtscrlption of the deplorable . state into which it has fallen; 'if they will go down any evening after dark they will fall into, a more deplorable state than the thirty holed wharf —the broken-3taired wharf —the wharf , upon which active men (like your correspondent) contrive to ewarm by means of a rope, but which ladies view .with dismay and terror. I am not going to use_strong language, but I art. going tb make life a burthen t~> the officials of the province "until . that wharf is repaired. I shall be residing at Motueka for a month or two, and every steamer ehall bring them letters, couched in strictly official style (was I not an official myself; for years?) which they will be bound to ansvrer. I shall write to the General Government, because I know the G. G. will rrfer the letter to the P. G. lam certain that before three months are over I will either make the oflidals concerned repair that wharf, resign their appointments, or commit suicide. Ime»n to get np an entertainment for the benefit of the poverty stricken. Provincial Government of Nelson; contributions respectfully solicited from the charitable and Ihumane; admission, one shilling; no money returned, - E I am, &c, R. H. Bakewe__, M.D. P.S.— This is number one.