HARBOR WORKS.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3017, 16 October 1878, Page 2

HARBOR WORKS.

(To the Editor of the Erening Star.)

Siß,-r-The satirical correspondent "Old Salt" of your contemporary in to-day's paper touches a subject which has been the wonder and comment of all the sensible men in the place, fur the last fortnight, and why it is allowed to go on is a mystery. It is patent to any one but the members of the Harbour Board thai their mode of carrying on their reclamation works is the very plan which would be adopted for silting up the present, berths of vessels doming, to the wharf and forming a bank at the new extension, which shall assuredly hare less depth of water when finished than at the former point of the pier. I understand there is a meeting of the Harbor Board to-night, and I think they should explain to the public, why, and for what purpose, they concentrate the tailings from the Moanatairi, Herald and Prince Alfred batteries and deposit them in the berths made by Teasels at the wharf, at the same lime forming a bank at the new extension. They should also explain why the mullock was not put in first half way down the wharf, at the reclamation wall, and wrought up the wharf, thereby forming a dam to hold, back the tailings, and let the clean water flush out and cut away the mud alongside the wharf. They should also explain why the mullock backing to the sea wall was not started at the jetty and continued northward, instead of starting northward and.working to the jetty, thereby forming concentration works to sand up the jetty with tailings. Is there no individual member of the Harbor Board with sufficient brains to see the amount of injury they are doing to the port P Where is the practical John Gibbons P Has he got dredging machine on the brain, to the extent of filling in for the purpose of taking it out again ? Who is responsible for this* gross mismanagement ? Who is Director of Works P and who is Engineer P The public hate a right to know all this, that they may know to whom they are indebted for throwing their money into the sea.—l am, <fee, Obsbktee.