THE THAMES HARBOR.
L. J. BaGNALL.
(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.)
Sib,—The common sense and courteous manner in which you write of the harbor and the members of the Harbor Board, certainly deserve the thanks of your readers if not of the parties referred to. I shall esteem it a favor if you will inform me in what way I am interested in having Kopu made what Nature intended it should be—the port of the Thames. If you had said Turua, which ia only second to Kopu, and where large vessels are always being loaded for Southern ports and the'other colonies, I would have been able to see thej ke. I said nothing about spending money at Kopu. None is required. Your correspondent, " Mariner," seems to have been caught in a " thick fog." I instituted no comparisons between Tararu and Kopu ; I merely stated facts. I hope " Mariner " will tell us who* the " practical engineer" is who can make a harbor at Tararu for five thousand pounds. When he does it I shall be glad to subscribe to the erection of a monument to his memory.—l am, &c, • J -
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3779, 7 February 1881, Page 2
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