"Mr Craig had stigmatised the present pilot spryice in a manner ut terly unwarranted in saying that'it w t ag an tiquated and incapable of performing- tho work assigned to ii t /If it-was bo it fol lowed that the pilot services of other ports were antiquated alec, as th,ey were carried

on ;:;Tho erperises of. the%#tt|jt£n tug^re^tarely covered by; its eafnifigfe.; "il^ild tf^ir tug jlti^that?; I^e thought jheS^vould $$c \ ablo tof-jprbvoj that itrAfcotf]^ njsjji vCh^firstWkuse i& Mj| Crai^^Sortontf^eipltfated unmerfte'd li&il?phjthe^ilot serv^^^MS" ' port ; a service^nder which tfTe port had risen from a third to a first-rate. , ; Jbhat. Jt^ ;; wa3 ? ; j asserted by the mover, cumbersome -and 1 tumble to risks in ;times of e.m>e.r; i<g£ney. Mr JCraig iliad also; trt ado ?.df a^ j serious omissions in the cost of maintain - I^^^ie^igrvtg^li^: pWpbsM?r^h6^at& was to b? located -aboard the tug, but.he said \ .nothing' Us- 'io^whe^her^the.uien. were 1 to bo there clay and night, or whether their familiea^pigs,-' and poultry tobe : located there too. Howerer, Mr^ Craig I probably meant that the raen ; should take f >thei'iv: aay'j-Nfood - aboard withittieu^tinfler. their arm like navvies going to >yprk^ ! It. seemed W him, however, that thaUwoulri not do, and that a cook would "have to: be Taddcd'totha staff of , the steamer, ;. v / .-Then, anMier;omissipQ was,;" ■that they Would. re quire a stoker, as no efficient engineer would undertake such * Engineers stood on their own' dignity too nuiclj to 'allovr of' the ; Board thinking; that they would'db suchi work>o If they, were so, 'far left to themselves,*? to get aiiig; (which he : hoped; they wpuld not), 'it Vvx)ul4 be most important to get' a' thoroughly com petent 'engineer. ; U they" selected *>he; of those half engineers half; stokers who wjere so easjly got the, probabilities were.thathe = would burnV the Vbdiler ;and :■ Tiiia, the ; - machinery ,of the; steamer in;£ f^months. ■ Again, if they got a good man ho ysrould not -act ■- .as stoker, so thai was pns more added to the crew, i He had sosne," slight knowledge bf these oaatters^ although he migHt be thpiight by some people rather ; antiquated, and hp could assureithe Board Vthat a tag in the present circumstance.? of Bluff Harbor would be a ruinous in vestment. 