THAT DOCK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 900, 20 August 1910, Page 4

THAT DOCK.

WHERE SILENCE KEIGNS SUPREME. , Summer has ' merged into mellow autumn, autumn into drear winter, and ; winter is turning its back on Wellington since the dock works fell into silence atTe Arc This work was initiated last year, and for a time swung along ai a. good pace. Then "laitanoe" was found to be affecting the density of the concrete, that wa« : being laid on the floor of the dock, and. the work came to a suddenstop. Montlit. at experimenting with all kinds of concrete mixtures and a variety of ways of putting it down ensued, with , little success, until. May [ last, when the' contractors, Messrs. John M'Lean and discovered a method of laying down the concrete by means of iron- tubes,when it solidified satisfactorily. Three months have passed since that discovery, ■ and silence still reigns - over th« scene,. . The possibility of importing a plant to . , lay the concrete by the new. method has' been mentioned, and plane wore drawn' with a view to that contingency. Other;, than thai nothing is known, and the dock' remains anything but like a dock, even inembyronic "form, snuggled in the water- ' . •side silence < behind the new reinforced - concrete wharf'for which the Harbour..--, Board does not appear to have any particular use. 'What the next step will be It is difficult to ascertain, a. deadlock. prevails. A Dominion reporter approached the" chairman of the Harbour Board on the question yesterday, but he is as silent iis the dockyard. "No information on the subject," says Mr. Fletcher. When will there be any? ' ' '