PROPOSED NEW FREEZING WORKS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 281, 30 April 1914, Page 6

PROPOSED NEW FREEZING WORKS.

(To the Kditor.) Sir, —Allow me to tluuik you for publishing my letter in your i<sue of 22nd inst., although i am sorry to see. iiv your sub-leader dealing with vine, that/you think me guilty of making wilfu! misleading statements, and you appear lo resent the reference in my letter to vour harbor works. Xow, if 'you will kindly reler to the chart published in t Nautical Almanac of l!)];j (and corre;- i by the Harbor Hoard to date of .liui , l!ll-2) you will see that (lie soundin.s given along the wharf are 33ft., and that an area outside this, presumably what you refer to as the cut. has been dredged to 33ft., 3,'ift., 2:lft,. :!:ift.. 33ft.. '2tft., 33ft., and So on, varying from to 25ft. as you work out seaward. Then if you will kindly reifer lo the chart contained in the Almanac issued th'y year (marked corrected by (lie Harbor Board to date of June, 1013) you will fiee that the soundings given alongside (lie wharf are -15 ft., 27ft., 27ft., 20ft., *2!) ft., 27ft., and tile remark on the chart regarding the area outside, is iliat this

area lias been dredged to "J.'li't. and 25ft., proceeding seaward. You will, therefore, see iluu if i liave iir ... ... hj; .

ment it lias been made oil i.;r .uiliiorily of these charts, and your ii.tri.ui- lioard, not your unfortunate correspondent, is tlie one guiit.y of „,i*..auin{; statements. A study of tiie two cku'i'.referred to above cei'tainl;, Wniui bad .1 layman like your correspondent to assume that the berth has silted up approximately lift, during the year. If you will kindly publish this letter and give an editorial explanation as to the cause of the apparent filling up of the harbor during the year 1812-3, you will confer another Ifavor on—

AN OLD SHAREHOLDER OF THE -MT. iiIi.UONT cKUffilSd LU. [The explanation appears in our leading columns.—Ed.] I '