DUNEDIN HARBOUR.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 56, 23 May 1874, Page 8

DUNEDIN HARBOUR.

A3 we write, there is a motion before tne Provincial Council of Otago, to establish a Trust for the purpose of dredging a c' annel sufficiently deep to permit the largest vessels to come up to Dunedin, and generally to improve what is called the Upper Harbour. That there is no engineering difficulty of ary moment to be encountered is certain; and it is also certain that the land to be Teclairr.ed will, when reclaimed, produce twice the amount that will have to be expended in the improvement. A day or two ago, two acres of reclaimed land were sold by auction and realised between £10,000 and £11,000. It is proposed to endow the Trust with 100 acres of reclaimed land, and as this land will become more and more valua' 1 le as population &c. increases, it is no exaggeration to say that this 100 acres will give the Trust atTfiast three-quarters of a million of pounds sterling. Yet with these facts patent to every one who considers the subject, there are to be found members of the Provincial Council who oppose the creation of the Trust. The opposition is at once absurd and ridiculous ; and it is greatly to be regretted that the business of _the country and the best interests of the Province and the Colony at large, are trifled with in order that some gentlemen may have an opportunity of spiting the Government because they are not in office, whilst others may have an opportunity of ventilating their vocabularies, and displaying the statesman.