PATEA HARBOUR
The annual meeting of the Patea Harbour Board was held on January 20th. The engineer, Mr J. Thomson, stated in his report:—“ One thousand one hundred feet of the breakwater is now, practically speaking, constructed, and only requires some concrete facing to complete it. Last January the channel was very crooked, running across the end of the work, with a double curve, and it was so shallow that there was no difficulty in crossing on horseback. In February the river cut a straight and permanent channel through the Land Spit. The new channel has continued deep and pretty straight ever since, and improves as we go further seaward with the breakwater. At high water we have 9ft., and 10ft. at neaps, and 12ft. and 13£t. at ordinary spring tides on the bar, and from 14ft. to 22? t. in the channel opposite the work. There would be no difficulty in shipping cattle direct from this district if vessels could be induced to call. The local steamers can enter and leave two or three hours before high water, and one of the captains told me that we had as good a bar harbor as there is along the West Coast.”
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1857, 5 February 1880, Page 3
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