WANGANUI RIVER IMPROVEMENTS.
At Tuesday’s meeting of the Wanganui' Harbor Board, the Engineer stated that some 35,000 yards of spoil had been removed from the channel since the commencement of the dredging operations. By the removal of this material the channel has been, over a portion of its length, deepened by from 6 inches to 3 feet 6 inches. To make a 40-feet cut right through the sandbanks some three months would probably be required ; and to make a cut 70 feet wide a farther period of two months would not unlikely prove sufficient unless a larger number of snags were met with than was anticipated. Mr Hassell further said that vessels drawing from lift Gin to 12ft could come right up the river daring spring tides, though at neap tides the depth -of water was from 9ft 9in to 10ft.
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Patea Mail, 4 October 1882, Page 3
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