BREAKWATER HARBOUR
Progress of Dredging WIDENING OF BERTHS Dredging continues to b© the principle activity in conqection with the development of the Break water harbour, and to date 1,185,250 tons of material have beeu handled. In his report to the Napier Harbour Board yesterday on the dredging operations for the past month, the eiigineer, Mr G. W. B. Lowson, stated that weather conditions during the earlhr part of the period were unfavourable accounting togetlier -with other causes, for the loss of over nine working days for the Whakarire. Dredging of the western berth' of the No 2 wharf was advancing steadily, the ground proving comparatively easy to dredge. For the period the dredge bandled 27,850 tons, working two sliiits daily. The Hapai was engaged in widening the berths alongside wharf No. 3 to tbeir final widths, and to their final depth of 35 fcet at low water. Both berths were ready for tbe accommodation of the deepest-draughted overseas vesscls visitiug the Dominion. 'i'lie Uroakwatcr mole was extcpded 2-ll't. 8 inches during the period, making a total extension to date of 221 feet.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 210, 21 September 1937, Page 4
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