AROUND THE HARBOUR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 2 May 1911, Page 3

AROUND THE HARBOUR.

WATER-FRONT IMPROVEMENTS. Of the several extensive undertakings along Hie water-front, which are being carried out by Mr. C. F. Pulley, two arc practically completed. These * aro the \Vatorloo Quay reclamation works, and a similar but smaller undertaking oil Evan; Hay, on Hie foreshore adjoining the Miramar Cutting. At Waterloo Quay about 3t> acres of land have been reclaimed from the harbour. Mr. Pulley's share oi the. work was the construction of a concrete retaining wall, and of the Waterloo Quay sewer. The first section of the sewei is complete and the completion of the wall is a matter of a day or two. It is a massive bulwark thirteen hundred feet in length, sixteen feet wide at the base, and gradually stepping in until it culminates in a small crov.-ning wall two feet nine inchcs thick. Throughout its length the wall has an approximate depth of :10 feet. At its deepest point it goes down to n depth of forty feet. llis present contract completed, Mr Pulley is to construct a further sectioi: of the Waterloo Quay sower. This worli is at the present, time being commenced. At Miramar, 111'. Pulley has completed the construction of a concrete retaining wall about 1100 fee': long. One section i> 1280 feet in length, and another 160 i'eel long. The area reclaimed is of about seven acres in extent. Still another water-front contract whicl Mr. Pulley has in hand is the uprooting and removal of the now useless stagin; upon the abandoned dock-site. Steadj progress is being made with this work and it will be completed, the contracto: thinks, two or three months hence.