THE PROPOSED WHARF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 150, 21 July 1909, Page 4

THE PROPOSED WHARF.

To tlie Editor. Sir,—ln the speech made in" defence ot a straight pier Mr. Connett mentioned what he faw in Melbourne, and urew the inference that the same would serve the purpose at the breakwater. Surely tliis must have been a misprint; it not, the chairman's judgment is sadly warped, seeing that Port Melbourne is protected through being land-locked, and, no doubt, all danger of the pier being wrecked is far removed. Not so at Moturoa. Neither of the delegates gave any information as to what they must have seen at Colombo, where a splendid breakwater lias been built, against which the waves from, the Indian Ocean dash in vain, and this splendid structure was built by prison labor, over which no strife or contention occurred.. Then, much information might have been ae-j quired by interviewing the powers that, )»> at Plymouth, wnere another breakwater has been erected at a heavy cost, against which the surging waves and storms prevailing in the Atlantic Ocean beat in vain. Behind such structures it would be perfectly safe to construct long piers without any danger of being destroyed; not so, in my opinion, at New Plymouth—l am, -etc., GLOBE-TROTTER.