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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4011, 30 May 1884, Page 2

We extract the following from the Wellington Post: —"Some time ago the Napier Harbor Board resolved to call in the aid of Mr Goodall, the engineer of the Timaru harbor works, to devise plans for the con« struction of a harbor at Port Ahuriri. The natural conditions there are somewhat similar to those existing at Timaru, 1 ' the travelling shingle being the difficulty in. each. case. Mr Goodall has so successfully grappled with and overcome this difficulty in the one case that the Napier Harbor Board acted very wisely in consulting him about the other. He went to NapierJ and not at all dismayed at the magnitude of the task, prepared complete plans for the construction of a breakwater and other harbor works. These plans the Board referred to i Commission; consisting of Mr Napier Bell and Mr Scott, two of the best engineering authorities in ■ the These gentlemen have been in Napier enquiring fully into the whole matter, and on Friday lnsfc they presented their report to the Board, which was not a little surprised at its indefinite character. All the pros ar,& cons were fully stated, but there was no conclusion—nothing to enable the Board to decide whether the Commissioners we're of opinion that Mr Goodall's plans were practicable or not. It was not till the following day that it was discovered that in copying out the report the concluding paragraph, in which the Commissioners expressed ,their opinions had been omitted. This was supplied, to the effect that there was evidence, so far as it went, to prove that the shingle was not likely to accumulate for many years, and that by removing it by means of dredging, - its accumulation could be pz-evented indefinitely. This amounts to a complete endorsation and approval of Mr Goodall's designs, and we believe the Napier Harbor Board will ask Parliament to give the necessary authority for carrying them out."