GREYMOUTH HARBOR

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1923, Page 3

GREYMOUTH HARBOR

LMRROYE.MKNT I‘I.ANS

As hritdly recorded at recent me. ting.s. tin; Greymouth llnrhutir Board has in contemplation. a project for improving !h port. To this end it lias engaged tin; services of lhi,o w.llknown engineers, and will Liter reI'ort to the Board. The engine*!'-, a iio will arrive, in Grevmnuth on Saturday. aiv . .!. Blair-.llasou (Con-lilting Engineer In l !e> Wanganui Harbour Board and the New Plymouth llai'honr Board): William Ferguson, (late Engineer to the Wellington Harbour lioardl : and F. W. Furkert. (ibigineer-in-CT;i'.'i for the Dominion). ) esterdny an “Argus" reporter gleaned some information about the Board's proposals from one of tic •G'ri.ynmiith members. .Mr Joseph McLean, who has held ofiiee on the. Board for a lengthy period. “The Gruyinuiith H.i rlaiur Board. raid Mr McLean, “has been in commun iea i ion with thi-o engineers for some time past, v. ilh it vi. -.e of getting fro. i them a joint report on the possibilities of improving the port, of Greymouth. TLBoard is anxious to further the i• iItTests of the district, and to provide facilities for the (outing of larger steam ers than those which at present, outer this port. The three eminent engineers who are coming here will go ini" all the possibilities of the harbour. Their examinations will not la limited to the river. it will he within their seoj’e to suggest a sc'crie. il sueli he commercially praetu aide, relative to a deep sea harbour, and they will have il in their hand- to present a report that will definitely settle the possibility or otherwise of a drop sea harbour for the port of G revmonl h. "