THE WANGANUI PORT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2116, 6 April 1914, Page 5

THE WANGANUI PORT.

LOAN & CASfLECLIFF BASIN ® r I'oloffraph.-Siwlii! a-.!ra-pon««!!t.i • Wanganui, April 4. ,Lte Wanß.iuni Harbour Board's re, ceipts (mriiTg tlio- financial ystir jusfe eadod for ivhnrfago, pifotngo, 'and porfc tlws were fi.18,214, ' This is an inerease of ,-C2y3 on the flgnres .o-f the .previous year, but is tl-r 0 smallest* *dyai.«e on a previous year's roveime that the bo;ird has c-xperienn-d for fliajiy v e!iTS ' This is attributed tfl tho effects of the recent strifes. The 1.0n.)i poll in conyectien with tin: rlnrhonr Board's : pj-oposal for oxtendmir the harbour v.-nrlfs: is ox;)i cl;e/i .to bo tfiken about tl-io end "of this month. Briefly, tho proposals are to pa-relkise a large and up-to-date dredge, to wall in an area of' 38 aeros at, Castlediff ipt- a ■shipmHU hasin, hut, m the r.seantiuie, to dredeo only twentv acres' of it; to fx tend the moles at the entrnil-ce sufli-cieilt-Iv far to seaward to give r, -depth «f thirty feet at ]>jc;h jsprinK tides: to fc-tlge tlio iihamaol W-ni Castfoclltf ia towvi to a eonsidenibly greater deptii than _ at- present; ami to extend the existing wharfage. Tlio pi tot r<'ported that the Miin;>i.inr it> port last raontli had toralled SS.Slfl I tons, tie also reported that, tho deptii j »f *28ft. at tho entvancfi was being iuaiii-1 taiiiec).