WORK at WANGANUI HEADS.
The Wanganui Harbor Board has accepted the tender of Messrs Davidson and Conyers, of Dunedin, L 17,917 12s 2d for works at the heads. On this the Herald confidently says : The truth is that the present contract is but part of a general scheme which will cost not L 20,000, but LIOO,OOO before it is completed. And we are sanguine enough to hope that the prosecution of the scheme will be continuous until it is crowned by a depth of say 22 feet at high water from wharf to ocean. When the Provincial Government insulted Wanganui by offering L 5,000 to deepen the “ditch” (Sir Wm. Fitzherbert’s phrase) we treated the offer as absurd,
and pointed out, not a little to the bewilderment of some, that we should yet have L 200,000 placed at our disposal. Wo give five years for the execution of the complete design, when the original promoters will have won the right to rest on their oars. In that time L 100,000 must somehow be found. After enumerating probable sources of income the Herald concludes, Before the end of 1883 wo hope to have the pleasure of congratulating the people ol Wanganui on the fact that we have gained two feet on the bar, and five or six feet in the shallowest part of the river. It will not be denied that the result will be worth the expenditure.
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Patea Mail, 16 February 1882, Page 3
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237WORK at WANGANUI HEADS. Patea Mail, 16 February 1882, Page 3
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