UNION COMPANY AT EVANS BAY

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 938, 4 October 1910, Page 4

UNION COMPANY AT EVANS BAY

:; ■.:•■■ :. : -—-—♦— —— '}.-"'^'^r : .'- ■' "; READY TQ BEGINS"-; v:;;^:, ; Plans of- the reclamation work to be carried out on behalf of the Union Steam Swp Company in the neighbourhood of , the Patent Slip at Evans Bay have now. ' - been prepared by Messrs. Beaton and ■' Madden, and Approved -by the Harbour .- Board and the Marine Department. The principal reclamation to Tie effected fc» ■ roughly, 380 feet in length by 160 feet in. - : width, from the foreshore ; outwards. - When the .work is completed there will be : available (as a ate lor '-', the work '■■■ andr> repair shops which .it.is: : jyoposed to "■ ■■'■' erect). a strip of land : about. 840 feet in' .. length. The reclamation work is to be ' ; fenced'-with'.-a rubble wall, this ' ."material*: > being- preferred to; concrete, on .account" ,: '•' of-the fact'that the Harbour Board has A: the: option of taking': over the site" at the ■' expiration of about 23 years, ', and,.if 'it■ : -: so wills, considerably {extending:; lie;reclamation area."■; i '.-. ' '.;:■.■:.?.'?:/■ '■' •'■'■'}, V. .•■•;■■

Whatever , the Harbour Board ■.•may. ultimately do,, it ,is apparent; that,the '.' Union Company are prepared: to carry cut immediately' ah' extensive .undertak-' ing.•-. Not only.-is a large.'site for^buildings'i 'to be prepared, as. stated'-"above,' but^a '.■'■'■ wharf,•■ 280 . feet' in;,length-by. 30-feet■ ii h breadth, is te.ekteiid in.'a.southerly direc-y tion ! from the;southern; 'of reclaitoed'area:. This will .provide accoinmbdatipn for : . steamers^of ■■ ; large:■- size.« rherevwUl he an -available •".■•' depth ■-••■'-of'« water, without; dredging- of frbm eight-to ' 21; feet. .Material for..«the reclamation 1 work.-i5.-to. •be".obtainei-:.fibm;vthe-clay:. ; '. hillside adjoining; the JPatent :■ Slip/ .ft; is! anticipated thaf : a ■ certain amount ot V stone for the : retaining! .>' wall' will , .be .■■■'■■ obtained from: the.'samii sourse, : and the remainder - : will: probably. be ,; brought"-■' froin Seatoun. The wKiif is to be 'built.. in.Australian hardwood;■;^: : v»:-i ':•';: .■•■■•'..•;, It is. understood thiß; a.-contract has ' been".:already: let: for -ii'the . reclamation - work and -for ■tte/Mijirtructionvof ■-. the' ■■• wharf. , ; •.'.',-. ■ ■ ■.-■i''.'^|r.v^;"--- r '.-v---ic ,: : ; };