AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 April 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

$ —. — HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS FOR MELBOURNE. [BY ELECTRIC TELKGKAPU--COPYKIOHT.J [I'KR PRESS ASSOCIATION. J MELBOURNE, This Day. A report brought from London by Mr Davidson, liispe-ctoi'-Genenil of Public Works, embodying a I scheme of harbour improvements prepared by Sir William Matthews, has been submitted to the Victorian Cabinet. The report condemns the. short referred to in the scheme recommended by Mr William Ferguson, engineer, of Wellington, New Zealand. It recommends a new pier at the point where- Mr Ferguson recommended «'i short one. The pier is to be 1800 feet long by 210 I'eet wide, affording accommodation for the four largest liners likely to come- to Melbourne, exclusive of railway lines and connections. The pier would cost C370,()00. The report provides for the construction later on, of other piers. SEARCH KOR THE WARATAH. The steamer Wakefield. which was to make a search for the. Waratah, is timed to arrive here about May •2.-, th.