“The Press” In 1866
March 12 WELLINGTON SLIP.—The Provincial Government lately made arrangements with Messrs. Kennard Bros., of London, to erect a patent slip, capable of receiving, as far as I recollect, vessels as large as 3000 tons burthen. The work will be one of the greatest value to the whole colony, but a difficulty is likely to arise. The necessary plant has arrived, but tha
contractors’ engineer does not consider the ground furnished as the site for the slip of a sufficiently substantial nature to bear the enormous weight which would be put upon it, nor is it such as was represented by the Government agent in London; so that if this objection is found to be a valid one, another site will have to be found, which will not be an easy matter.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31006, 11 March 1966, Page 10
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