GISBORNE HARBOR

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1920, Page 3

GISBORNE HARBOR

COMMISSION’S RECOMMENDATIONS. GISBORNE, April 12. Some weeks ago thp Gisborne Harbour Board decided to appoint Messrs William Ferguson, J, .Blair Mason, apd Cyrus Williams to report op a scheme for an outer harbour. After making a detailed investigation, the Engineers have submitted a report to tho Board, recommending that a breakwater harbour be constructed off Kaiti beach, south westward of the mouth of the Tauranganui River.

About eleven thousand feet of construction work will he involved in the proposed breakwater arid mole. The entrance will he seven hundred feet wide and the breakwater will have a projecting arm of fifteen hundred feet from the entrance to the wharves. There will be a manoeuvring distance of two thousand feet.

The area of the proposed harbour will be one hundred and ninety acres, and there is at present a depth of fortytwo feet at low water at the entrance, thirty feet half way across the harbour and twenty-four feet at the wharves. The maximum depth to be dredged is forty feet ,with a minimum of thirty feet. The plan shows six wharves, which would accommodate twelve overseas

vessels. The entrance to the proposed harbour would be in tho vicinity of what is now known as tho Nahura’s anchoi-

ngo. . It is estimated that the work would occupy five years, and the total, cost would he £1,559,180. They estimated that a revenue of a hundred thousand per annum would he necessary, which could he made up as follows: Wharfage and charges on goods, thirty thousan sterling; dues on vessels thirty-five thousand; Rents, nine thousand and a rate of say a half penny in the pound on a valuation of fifteen million, thirty thousand; total, one hundred ami four thousand.