CLYDE QUAY DOCK.
Clyde Quay is rapidly growing into a busy centre of industry and commerce. Besides the public works'thafc the City Council is erecting—chief of wliiclr is the 'new destructor—a commodious Mock is .to be constructed there on modern and improved principles. Concrete will bo used: largely in its construction, which willm&ke "fc the first of its kind ill Wellington, although there are similar docks in Auckland' and othor places further abroad. '
iTlie plans provide' that the wharf shall be 507 feet in length and 63 feet broad. Tho deck will bo 12 feet above water, and will be composed of 19G concroto piles, spaced 20 feet and 9 feet apart. All round there' will be spring piling of iron-bark timber; tha piles being spaced 10 feet apart. Down tho centre will be a raised beam, in order to carry the centre leg of; a crane. At tho shore end there will ho a weighbridge, offices, and gates, and it will bo approached from Clydo Quay by a roadway between tho liar-, hour and the Corporation yard. It will have a depth of 2S foot at low water. No sheds will bo needed, as the dock will bo used for coal, timber, and such like, and for boats lying up for'repairs.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 6, 2 October 1907, Page 6
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212CLYDE QUAY DOCK. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 6, 2 October 1907, Page 6
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