THOSE BEACONS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1323, 30 June 1883, Page 2

THOSE BEACONS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I see by your report of the Harbor Board meeting that Member Chrisp quietly sat upon Member Whinray, snubbed the Engineer (and to his own satisfaction, no doubt) enlightened the Board in matters nautical. The line of arguments he (Chrisp) brought forward in support of the erection of temporary beacons, was, to my mind, somewhat startling and novel. “That if perm nent beacons were erected, vessels must of a necessity Tun foul of them, and either or both come to grief and instanced the cate of the Pretty Jane as a case in point. Now, sir, I have sailed on board many crafts, and passed many beacons and landmarks in perfect safety, and unless there is some peculiarly strong “ local magnetic ” attraction about your port, I do not see the force of the hon. member’s arguments. If Mr Whinray and the other members of the Board will, in future, be guided by their own common sense, even should it lead them to run against the dictum of an “ Ex-harbour-master,” I think the town and port would greatly benefit thereby.*—l am, Ac., Jimmy Ducks.