To the Editor of the "Norta-Cama Dairy News."
Sin,—In reply to the suggested scheme which f noticed in your paper on the 20th instant, and re the proposal of forming a Company to enable a floating dock to be constracted by the excavation of s large piece of land down the farther end of the YangtezepooRoad, which one may suppose to have been proving rather unproductive to for years past_and this scheme: ink, to an yachts now being moored in the open river by the Bund, where there is Tittle or no shelter at any time and therefore liable to damage in bad weather, The case, however, is entirely different with the big crowd of houseboats now being moored carefully and comfortably in the Soochow Creek, where there i no likelihood of the boats bei knocked about or damaged through weather. The writer has owned houss-boats for many years and never sustained any damage to his poate while lying moorings. Small damage may be caused of course by the neglect of taking care of a boat while in charge of a last lowdah, who does not care in the lout bout his master's property so long his wage is paid regularly every mooth and it servos purpose in meet cases to employ s coolie or auull boy at a couple of dollars per month to look after the boat ad be always on board, whilst his "gentleman" master-lowdah lives st home with his family and seldom comes on board. Bat so far as the mooring places for our boats in the Creek sre concerned there can be no fault to find im the least. The Soochow Creek is the best and only place in the centre of the Settlement where our boats can be moored with perfect safety and comfort for their owners, and are not any hindrance to the native owned craft, The boat traffic on the Creek is most efficiently regulated the whole day by water police, ander instroctiont from the Harbour Master, and it is very rarely to be found that any abstraction or damage to either foreign or native boats occurs, The traffic on this Creek is regulated with great care, and the foreign houseboat owners have much to be thankful for ander these circamstances, This is my reply, Mr, Editor, to the suggested Mooring of Plessary Ci and I think the feelings of nearly all the owners of the numeros boats now being moored in the Soochow Creek at the present time would be sot caring to change their present positions to any other of uncertainty, discomfort, and cost. It is, however, another quettion with the sailing yachts to obtains safer and better anchorage or mooring places than the present one on the open river.
Apologizing for the large space re quired by explaining the so-called mooring question of houseboats.
Tam, etc, A.W.
To the Editor of the "Nonra-Emma Dairy Ni Sim,—I should be glad if yeo tt will oblige me with a space in year ip colamas to reply to your correspondent A.W. He appears to have misorstrued the proposed scheme; it provides for a basin, not " "floating dock."
I quite disagree with him on the sub-that such a big undertaking would involve in festing Company for the only parpose of mooring emall craft.
certainly would not confer apy benefit on houseboat owners, whatever it might otherwise do in connexion with craft with " special harbour. Alli eral would benefit, not yachts alone. One of the benefits of a arbour would be the great reduction in the annual overbscl and sundry work needed daring the year: other benefits would be th
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