DEEP-WATER PORT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 4, 26 March 1927, Page 3

DEEP-WATER PORT

WHANGAREI PROGRESS removal of sandbar (from Our Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, To-day. The Whangarei Harbour Board ye - . Nay decided to remove 15,000 cubic ‘ of sandstone from the bar at vtoreroa. giving a depth at low ater spring tide, of 10ft. It accepted ** tender of Messrs Mounce and Son / r the removal of the stone at a cost Iff 30.000. \ir J. D. McKenzie, chairman of the Vnard said it was time the scheme m inaugurated. The board was war-n-ed in undertaking a more comprehensive scheme. In arriving at its decision the board had considered the training balance of the finances and id also given due consideration to its j.naklng with the railway authori“pfto provide a coal wharf at Kiorewithin two years, in return for irfuch the Railway Department under*“'k to remove Kioreroa bridge. If bo ard failed in this undertaking ithin the stipulated time the Railway "“artment would not be bound to rewve the bridge, necessitating extenIve repairs or renewals. Sl The removal of the mud-coating and ■h er sandstone on the bar will be carried out by the board’s employees wi-h their own plant. , strong point was made at the ceting of the early completion of the v- reroa proposals as a means of immediate revenue return to the board ® exfenditure of loan moneys and ‘I tine Whangarel a deep water port. ?hp total estimated cost of the work is £40.150.