TIMARU HARBOR BOARD ELECTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2462, 9 February 1893, Page 2

TIMARU HARBOR BOARD ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —A few errors having crept into the report of what I said re harbor matters at the meeting of ratepayers held at Peel Forest, on Saturday, I have to ask your kind permission to be allowed to rectify them. The advance of the shingle along the mole should read “ for the two years since January, 1891, 250 feet,” instead of 25 feet. Re Mr Stumbles’s proposal to shift the shingle by rail, instead of £5 per truck my remark was “that 450 tons per day meant 90 truck loads of 5 tons each load.” Re encroachment of the sea on the railway, it was Mr Blackett who was sent to report, not Mr Blackett who sent someone else. Mr McKay asked what distance from the bend the board would allow the shingle to come before starting to shift, to which I replied that probably 100 feet would be considered little enough for a safe margin. I have to thank you for publishing so full a report, the few palpable errors therein, and the want of clearness in some few passages of the meaning intended to be conveyed, are no doubt caused by faults of my own.—l am, etc., J. Talbot.