ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 798, 7 December 1853, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New-Zealander. Sir, —In all governments it has too often happened that measures proposed nominally for the public good have foiled to produce benefit to the public generally because of the interested views of individuals. One of the first ficts to be determined on by those elected by the Province to administer to its advantage, will probably be the establishment of a Ferry between Auckland and the North Shore of the Waitemata ; some time has now elapsed since tenders have been called for without any result having been made known to the public on the subject, which delay, I surmise is occasioned by an unworthy conflict being kept up by the North Shore settlers themselves as to who shall have the Ferry to touch nearest his own land. The chief difficully seems to be, to determine the point of embarkation on the North Shore. To settle this to the satisfaction of residents of the interior, for whose benefit, it is presumed, the Ferry is chiefly intended, two questions are to be considered, —first,at what place can passengers embark at all times of the tide 2 and if there be more than one place convenient for embarkation, to which of them do the most frequented and best roads from the interior lead ? Admitting myself an interested person, I would observe from personal observation that, Onewa, or Stokes's Point answers best of the two. Respectingthe roads to it, those from the Bay, Wangerie, Mahuranga, Matakana, and the Wade, and from all creeks of the Waitemata,-are as short and better than to any other point on the southwest side of Shoal Bay, while the water there or in its immediate vicinity is also deep, soithat an embarkation can be made at any time of the tide. Tins is not the case at any other point of the south-west side of the Bay, while the roads to the north of the Bay are nine to ten miles round of bad read. The best roads to Stokes's Point are little known to many who live even on the bank of Shoal Bay. From the Catholic College and the Coast side there is a good Government Road, and a bad private road, so that people frequently select the worse from ignorance of the better road, and if questioned on the subject, might unintentionally lead strangers to conclude that the road to Stokes's Point is a bad road. All these adventitious difficulties, however, can easily be cleared up on inquiring of residents in the interior, the only people who can be disinterested—every man living on or near the banks of Shoal Bay or Stoke's Point being naturally biased in favour of his own property. I beg, Sir, that you will give a place in your journal, and you will much oblige, yours, &c, Z.