Sir, - Last month you published two short but decisively worded paragraphs about a demand from Dublin's Chamber of Commerce for use of the Liffey to ease the burden of traffic on Dublin streets. Intelligent use of all our inland waterways would be a boon to the whole country, economically and socially.
Unhappily there was no follow-up to your two enlightened paragraphs and not for the first time a great reform is smothered by lack of public pressure.
The research department of the Maritime Institute, which as far back as 1947 provided the institute with details for inland waterway development, has had enough correspondence since your two paragraphs were published to satisfy us that public opinion would be decisively behind an up-to-date plan for inland waterways, were it launched by a group of the country's chambers of commerce or some other influential body. - Yours, etc.
JOHN de COURCY
IRELAND,
Grosvenor Terrace,
Dalkey,
Co Dublin.