, 1896-04-04

accumulate at times would De carried away
again. Our advice was not needed then,
just as little as on any other occasion, and
here we have a large amount OF money eX-
pended Ton no use whatever; there Is q large
hole widening out more and more i'll the nn-
der part Of the wall. Weakening the whole
structure; in the centre there is a slide. where
the water collects too. and if You have sugar
Oh the pier, you have to put boards to pre-
vent them getting wet, at times even
that does not prevent damages; now comes
that ordinary lighters can not lie alongside,
on account of the mass of sand accu-
mulating, and tbs too Just at our busiest
time, when expectations have to pass over
that pier. The proposal we made for a diff
ferent and more durable as we'll as more
adequate structure would not have cost more
money. This affair will cost large sums still
for the constant repairs, and yet it Will never
suit. Still importers and merchants pay q
heavy tax for Wharfage, and yet no accom-
mOdations to suit the requirements or even to
meet the first necessaries for shipping IN q
port like Westend are provided. He had
been told that official reports had been
made of the state Of the pier, but
nothing had been lone. In the face
of all this, and much more, it can certainly be
no blame on the Councils Members who will
not continue to vote away money not pos
sessed Or likely to be gained and Tor purposes
to which we have demonstrated but nseIessly.
Any man hearing and knowing the situation
will bear us our that it is not incorrect of us
when we ref ain from voting the Budget or
when we vote against it as beng a true
representative of the Councils wishes and
desil es; but let it distinctly appear that we
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we leave it to those who must have the re-
sponsibility. He would therefore say again
that be could not see otherwise than that the
only right course is to vote against all the
Money Bills and not to pass the Budget.
The (GOreTHor): In reference to the re-
marks from the last honorable Speaker
(BlackwoodD would beg to put a question:
the Honorable Member said that some Off
Gals in West End had written in to Govern
ment several times concerning the state OF
the Wharf there, and nothing had been done;
he would beg to ask the HONORABLE Member
VINO those officials are? 1t is certainly so
that some time ago an Official down in West
End-he would rot here mention the name
had notified to him that a sand bank had col
lected by the wharf. and he, the G vernon
wrote to say how the sand bank should he
I6tIIONIN, III III 1'U 1CIIfEllOO1 ACN'A'S
again, AMI it was rem we'd. it is true hat
there are seme ers0ns in West End between
whom there is some It'll friction, but he dlu
not think hat they would make The Honour
able Member Their confdant on a thing like
that. lie would again say, that only today
he had been told of the wharf IN Frederlk-
Sted, and he would add that he had also
heard that previously planters or merchants
used to nave lighters of smaller drausht,
only 3 feet, but now lighters are made D feet
deep. and that of course causes them to touch
easier than before; anyhow only this after
noon had he heard of the wharf being unht
for use; he had already answered the
Honorable Member that he would do what
is necessary; but he Gould not take the r.
proof, that he had known long of the Wharf.
End. Member for Frederiks ted's Country
(Blackqoood) said if he had made
any assertion that could be understood so
that any official had told him of reports hav-
ing been made of the state of the wharf, but
vet nothing had been done. then he had done
wrong; he had received no such information
from any official, but he had been told-by
whom he could not remember-that such
reports had beer made, and that it was I'M
possible to use the landing wharf under the
and in the state, wherein 1t IS
We have to make the best Of it u"der
ordinary circumstances, but when that little
use we can get, is deprived us by the sand
bank. then it becomes a matter for serious
complaint; such are the facts; and all His