WHARF ACCOMMODATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5452, 17 September 1878, Page 2

WHARF ACCOMMODATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sin, —As a passenger to-day by the Wanaka from the North I must, with your permission, press upon the authorities of this port the inconvenience and danger to which ladies and other passengers are exposed by the crowding and confusion upon a strip of a wharf, the greater part uf which is occupied by a large clumsy shed almost in ruins. “ Gan there be a Harbor Board ?" I exclaimed ;“ Is this accommodation such as befits the Empire City ?" Your goods and chattels are pitched ashore amidst a crowd which prevents the express waggon from approaching to receive them, the aforesaid shed causing the only meaus of approach by a vehicle to be by backing the horse. I mounted the box, when the men fitting the guy to hoist out cargo let a good thick rope fall from aloft, very narrowly missing my head. The driver told me that not long ago they let a block fall, which might easily have killed one of the crowd below. Surely, sir, whether, the harbor is managed by the Town Council or by a Board, some decent arrangement might be made for passengers aud luggage arriving or departing from Wellington, I know Englishmen are apt to grumble to themselves, but to shun thetrouble of making their grievances publicly known, and I think I am doing service by exposing a state of things of which those in authority here may not be fully aware. . Hoping that the next time I visit this port I may find that these lines have been of some avail, I beg to subscribe myself - . T. T. September Ifi, •