PIPITEA WHARF.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1780, 19 June 1913, Page 5

PIPITEA WHARF.

THE NEXT NEW STRUCTURE. , 'Asked yesterday as to what wharf building was to be done this year by the Harbour Board, the chairman (Mr. Robert; Hetohor) did: not know if any further actual building would be dono during the year other tnan what was now in hand, but tha engineer and his staff were at present engaged in drawing plans of the now whaTf to bo erected to the northward of tho King's Wharf, to bo called the Pipitea Wharf, after the name of the old Maori pa, which wa3 located on the beach opposite that point on tho newly reclaimed land, at Waterloo Quay, from which the new wharf will be run, Asked if it would bo similar in construction to the King's Wharf, Mr. Fletcher said that it would differ materially frotto . the last- / ereoted wharf, which was proving a most expensive wharf to work. This was ohiefly on account of tho two-stOTieu 6hed, which was very difficult and awkTrarffl to work. The now wharf would 00 widor than the King's Wluirf, and the aheda would be just as high, but would certainly not be two-storied. Asked n it was intended to raise the floor 01 tne ' 6hed to the tart-lovel as is being done in connection with the 6h«l n , whaTTea at Auckland, Mr. Hotelier stated that the raised floor m l S ht , 6l ' lt , t ?;° tem of working in Auckland, but he was not convinced that it would be any ■benefit here as our system o£ ™T oh ?cf cargo was enhrelv different. The cnie features of a modern wharf were width and height-wide whaijes to fncihtate tho handling of cargo and plenty of height in the sheds,to stow it, until it can bs lotted out and delivered -to consignees.