THE BLOCKADE OF THE NEWCASTLE WHARF.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 869, 8 January 1878, Page 2

THE BLOCKADE OF THE NEWCASTLE WHARF.

SiE,-^ln your paper of the Ist instant, a letter ■ appears under the heading of Wharf Begul.ationfl,Ngaruawahia, signed 'Traveller," complaining that the boats " Lilie " and " Alert " were alongside that wharf— on~boxiaff r .uight,.^culhat the Captain of the Delta was "unable to ship certain goods from -railway trucks, and urging that there "should~ be regulations jaade for the management of this jrharf . i wish to say that uxe" Alert '^?vras not alongside the wharf on. that wglit, nor tor several days previously-, having been I laidxip: The *« IM&' "was alongside, aod .he superpatgo on ' board, waTting ttie earliest opportunity to receive goods from rucks, as we had no desire to infringe on vhe Special Railway Regulations respectug delivery of goods on Chriatmas and Boxing Days. •mere are -Wiarf Regulations ln ; force 'which •apply-to Newjastle- Wharf; fulty dufiicien.t for regulating traffic thereon.' I would inform " Traveller " that for the eighteen months I was shipping goods at Mercer, the company, on whose, behalf he juerfercs, almost monopplised ttfe wharf Ghero with barges and steamers, but I always managed to reeve or wedge m to a berth without "crushing" or making, formal or other complaints, that since the " line " was opened to Newcastle, I have been receiving all our goods theror It is rarely the other company receive 4 truok at Newcastle, consequently ye are scarcely ever alongside together for several days. One of their empty barges was m my way of shipping goods thore, but as wo had hitherto accommodated ourselves on such occasions, we shoved it aside as usual, m like manner the trivial cause of complaint which " Traveller " mentions might hayo been removed by a hand sent to assist the supercargo to slack the "Lilie" away. But, sir, it is not mord law we want, but a disposition to agroo among ourselves, and accommodate each other. .There are selfish minds who that uhe Waikato wharves and rivers are only just large enough for the Waikato Steam Navigation Company, and while such a spirit of monopoly exists, the best of lairs cannot make .U6 work harmoniously together.— l am, &0., A. C4KPBBXILI iioiaiitoJ3, ; Jaauary 5, £8?S.