Report of the Select Committee: Appointed by the Legislative Council to Consider and Report Upon Plans for the Improvement of Port Elizabeth Harbour (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee: Appointed by the Legislative Council to Consider and Report Upon Plans for the Improvement of Port Elizabeth Harbour

Select Committee appointed on the 2nd June, 1880, to which was referred the Petition of the Inhabitants of Port Elizabeth, in favour of the speedy execution of such plans as may carry out certain Improvements of the Harbour of Port Elizabeth; consisting of Messrs. Geard, De Smidt, Ebden, Hutton, Muri on, and Hudson.

Your Committee having considered the Petition of the inhabitants of Port Elizabeth on the improvement of that harbour, and examined several witnesses and papers laid before them, beg to report as follows: -

1. They consider it fully proved by the evidence before them that the present appliances for landing and shipping goods, and for landing and embarking passengers, are attended with considerable risk both to life and property, and inadequate to the requirements of the trade of the port.

2. That, while the construction of further jetty accommodation, as proposed by Government, will doubtless give increased facilities for the work required, we consider that the important and extensive trade of the port require and justify works such as those proposed by Sir John Coode, or works of a somewhat similar character, with a view of providing, if possible, safer anchorage for vessels, and of securing the landing and shipping of goods and lauding and embarking of passengers in all weathers.

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