CLYDE QUAY DOCK.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1085, 25 March 1911, Page 6

CLYDE QUAY DOCK.

REMOVING AN EYESORE. ■ Although, the, '.proposal-; to construct a graving dock-oil-the Clydo.-Quay ioicshore has now been definitely abandoned tho rejected dock sito is likely in tho immediate future to bo the scene of a good deal of industrial activity. At tho moment the great staging of piles and heavy cross timbers which were eroctcd by the dock contractors in furtherance of their now suspended work still stands as a monument-to fruitless enterprise. It gives an aspect or desolation to tho scene in which it stands out as a prominent feature:' The range of gaunt'timbers, already, grey and weathcrbcaton, resemble nothing more than an ancient wharf that has been abandoned to decay. This ugly structure will not much longer bo permitted to interrupt and defaco the ordinarily trim lines of tho harbour foreshore. Already a number of labourers are at work under tho direction of Mr. C. F. Pulley to whom tho task of demolition has been entrusted. So far only preparatory work has been carried out, but presently a powerful derrick will bo sot up, and tho task of uprooting tho hundreds of piles will commence. Sixteen to twenty men will bo employed on the work. Mr. Pulley estimates that it will tako five or six months to complete. About four hundred piles m all will be removed. Most of them are sunk to a depth of six or eight feet. Under his contract Mr. Pulley will strip the staging, uproot the piles, and stack up the whole mass of timber ashore, where, it will bo at the disposal of tho Harbour Board. Probably a portion will bo sold and the. remainder utilised in repair operations carried out by tho board. A couple of crancs and a large concrete mixer also remain at the disposal of tho Harbour Board. They will be either sold or added to its standing equipment as may be deemed expedient. Ono section of tho timber staging, which runs across the mouth of what was to have been tho dock basin, is to be left standing in the meantime. It will bo utilised if tho board carries out tho proposal to build a eoncroto wall across tho mouth of tho basin and fill in its area. The concrete mixer, which remains .upon the ground, will also come in handy if it is decided to build tho reclamation wall.