OTAGO HARBOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26625, 22 November 1947, Page 9

OTAGO HARBOUR

o ir _vorty-four years ago I remember very pleasant afternoons spent at Broad D av hnatins and wading on the haroou sandbanks at low tide. 1 no recollection of seeing the sand banks mgn and drv as they are to-day. Am I in saying the harbour is silting up. In hnt y dav the ferry steamers plied ♦Upv would find a channel at all. , th lf y conditions are to get P r ° p °p*‘?" a ifai worse until Dunedin’s second centennial, what sort of harbour will the generation of that day have? And we.have to remember that they will be living m the 14 ntomic ” or maybe some even more ad „rto wiu thev be content with shins crelping at 1 four* or five miles an a Hredeed-out channel? Plans have been published of wharves to be built at the southern endowment, which with all their amenities, including a new Sailors’ Rest building, would doubtless run into a le ™ m L UI °“ p a ° lt he Perhaps because I do not know an ini facts I am perturbed. I have written this ’letter with a vi ®, 1 f fio t d 0 t S r ?xnres S d an cusslon by people qualified to express an nnininn on what, to my mind, is a vuai factor in the future history of this beautiful city. My scheme visualises what the harbour could be made to look like 100 years hence, but I shall wait t 0 knoA the opinions expressed in future letters. If any. May I suggest that a short hi.. lory of Otago Harbour would give muchneeded enlightenment and he appi'eciated bv many people who .have only very vague ideas about the harbour, it s control and development?—l am, etc.^