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PORT GERMEIN JETIY.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir— Would you kindly allow me to object to
a portion of your Port Pirte correspondent's
report of the Port Pirie railway meeting as it
appeared in your issue of the 2nd instant? I
wrote a letter to the Mayor of Port Pirie
contradicting a statement that had been attributed
to me, viz., "that ten ships could load at
the Port Germein Jetty." I explained to His
Worship that what I did say at the Booleroo
meeting was "that with a little additional
expense the jetty could be made capable of
loading ten ships;" and I further remarked that
"a good cause was often injured by its advocates
using false statements." Your correspondent in
quoting my letter to the mayor rendered it as
follows: — ' Port Germein could do what he
said supposing that a little more expense were
lavished on it.' I object to the word
'lavished;' it may apply elsewhere, but
it certainly does not to Port Germein.
The word is simply an envious interpolation of
your Port Pirie correspondent, and it comes
with ill grace from Port Pirie. They have the
dredger Sarnia and plant which cost the country
£27,865, and during the year 1880 they had
£15,171 3s spent in deepening, and during the
present year the sum of £35,186- 7s. will be
spent. They have applied to the Marine Board
to scoop out a big hole at Port Pirie to enable
ships to turn round in. A notice to mariners
now appears in the Government Gazette that ten
feet of water can be got at the outer bar. A
railway from Coonatta to Port Pirie is now required.
Then perhaps the Government will see
their way clear to spend £387,870 to further
deepen the port to 20 feet of water, but at Port
Germein the word is ' lavished' for spending
£10,000 or £12,000 to enable ten ships drawing.
18 or 20 feet of water to load up full cargoes. —
I am, &c., N. SIMONS.
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