WANTED-A DOCK.
HARBOUR BOARD CRITICISED. Wellington's liiifinislifd dock camo in for Fomo little, criticism ot tlio smoke concert tendered by Hie Marino Engineers' Institute to tlio engineers of the s.s. In' drabarnh last evening. Mr. W. Cable said that had the Harbour Board proceeded with the work tbo dock would have bien tho ljcst in Che Dominion. With such a dock the Wei* lington engineering linns would have been ablo to have "fixed the Imlralxmh up and f-'-n I her awuy good as new. Speukws also criticised the Harbour Board in not woing the work through. It was Mated I hat on account of tho absence of the dock thousands of pounds wero being lost to the city. Mr. Walker, Lloyd's surveyor, expressed the opinion that. H><: engineering firms of Wellington wero capable of doing anj kind of repairing work that might happen to come along. The want of a suitablo dock was keenly f<-H.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1806, 19 July 1913, Page 4
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155WANTED-A DOCK. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1806, 19 July 1913, Page 4
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