NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2261, 23 October 1889, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR

SIU J OEIS OOJDi_'a REPORT. (PBR PRESS AflSoOIATIOBf.) Nkw P_ymooth. Oj ober 23 At the mueiliig of th? Ua bar Board to-day *. rdport 0:1 Na* PiymoU'h harbor signed by Sir John Oo>de and Mr 0. Blaokett was read. The fist part oonilsti of a review of Mr Blaokeit's previous report ; then oomos oonaide r atlon of tbe sand growth, and it ends with reoommendatlo s with regard to tbe last. Sir J. Ooo.io says that the wall built by prison labor from the shore to Mlkotahl whioh was recommended by Mr Blaokett to prevent tbe sand travelling round the nead of the break- water ought to bestopped and its continuation to the L.on rook abandoned. He (Sir J. Coode) thinks that the sand has not been drifting and tbat some of tbe differ, nosa whioh bave been attributed to the deposit of sand 1 aro due ta discrepancies m the soundings whioh are to some extent inevitable ' when fixing the position of isolattd depths over suoh a large area ao that cf J the original surveys and therefore reooav monds that the sand be dredged ont by a hopper dredge, similar to those extensively üb« d m Holland and at some Frenoh , ports The plant, he says, c^uld be , placed at New Plvmou b, ready for work [ for about £11,000, and the oost of work ; ing would bet boat £4600 a year, Sir J. . Ooode In 0 nolusion reoommends tbe em--1 ployment of this dredge. Its adoption, t he says, would not be assr elated with an operation of an experimental oharaoter. . and satisfactory remits oan be confidently ; looked for from Its employment Thu i would be the means of aff )rdtng aooomodat tion for any vessels that trade In N.w Zss- > land. Sir J,OoodeandMrßlaokettstrongly ■ recommend tbat the mode cf procedure they propose for adoption should be \ approved of.