HOW LONG?

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2161, 29 May 1914, Page 9

HOW LONG?

DELAY ABOUT NEW. PATENT SLIP. "What are the Patent Slip Company doing?- Aro .they going on with, the new slip?" asked. Captain Watson at the meeting of the Harbour Board on Wednesday. The chairman: They are making a very slow move, I think. The engineer has been on their tracks. ■ The engineer (Mr. Marchbanks) said that the company had got out plans for a small slip, but had altered them. Now they were taking surveys and having borings made of the site of the proposed new slip. He had not yet seen any working drawings. When the concession was granted to the Patent Slip Company , to erect tho slip on the Evans Bay foreshore there was a condition attached that so soon as the Harbour Board could show that a second slip was necessary the company should lay one down. Chiefly as tho result of ail agitation by the ironmasters, who complained that owing to tho high charges at tho local slip ships were being taken to other ports for &verhajil, the board came to the conclusion about two years ago that the time had arrived when the port needed a new slip, smaller than the present_ one, for the use cf which correspondingly smaller charges should bo made. They notified tho Slip Company, who protested that the work was' unnecessary, but their objections were overruled.