"Observations of the Harbour of Auckland"
by William Powditch (1865)
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Page 3
OBSERVATIONS
OF THE
HARBOUR OF AUCKLAND
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THE period having passed when there is any possibility of the Provincial Council being again summoned before the dissolution, leaving the course now open to any one to enter on discussions of the Acts of the Provincial Government, and the differences which have arisen between the administrative and deliberating branches so very little known to the public; it is but fair to the Provincial Council that the truth be stated in the many points on which the public have been misled for want of faithful reports, there being no independent member in the Council holding any interest or influence over any journal of the day; to prevent garbled statements which the influence of the Executive formerly editor of one of them, has known how to work so as to use to very great extent to give a false colour to his doings and sayings in the conduct of Government business. There is one subject before going into more general questions demanding immediate attention, because a section of the public have under false information interfered too hastily by signing a petition cooked up with falsehood and sophistry, attempted to save the administration from the just condemnation for assuming the power to expend money and to perform works of great magnitude upon the opinion of one person only without any investigation of its accuracy, and without any previous request to the Council for their approbation or investigation.
To do this in a proper explanatory manner, to enable the public to be accurately informed, will occupy both time and space which cannot to do justice be avoided. If in the newspapers in several communications, I shall therefore set out with that one which concerns the province most as a question of progressive improvements, to keep our harbour in advance of all others in New Zealand. I look upon this question of Harbour improvements, as of much greater moment than the seat of Government question, or even of separation, in what manner and in what position they should be done to secure at a reasonable rate, that accommodation which we require towards promoting our harbour as a depot or free wharehousing port for commerce, without interfering with future requirements, which time and circumstances alone can develope, and to avoid injuring in the smallest degree our natural advantages, and the available extent of navigable water.
A scheme of Harbour Works is not a question merely for an Engineer, it is not strictly professional at all unless for an Engineer
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