INVERCARGILL JETTY.

Southland Times, Issue 1268, 21 June 1870, Page 2

INVERCARGILL JETTY.

(TO ISI BDTTOB O* THI TIKIS.) Snt,— Oan you tell rae why it ia that the wharf is not repaired • For every ton of goods I land, the consignee has to pay 2s wharfage, and 2s delivery, 4a per ton in all. Of course the merchant having "to pay this extra charge for delivery, puts it on to the .consumers, and they have to suffer. It appears to me that all obstacles-are being put in the way to prevent vessels coming to the Invercargill wharf by the New River. When pilotage and wharf charges are paid, it makes it the most expensive port in New Zealand. The price of all kinds of stores and provisions in Invereargill is fully 20 per cent, above Dunedin, and I cannot conceive why it should be so. As a partial remedy I would suggest that the wharf should be repaired so as to allow cart* and dray* to come alongside the vessel, the tame a* at Punedin, and thus save the 2s per ton. In it* present state it is even dangerous to foot passenger* ; and if the Government draw the wharfage money, I consider they should afford to repair the wharf and encourage the trade of the provinoe. V7hy don't the Chamber of Commerce take the matter in' hand f I understand you have one here.— Tour's truly, D. Baik, Master of cutter Planet.