COST OF DREDGING
WHO SHOULD PAY? POSITION AT DEVONPORT The Harbour Board and the Devonport Borough Council agreed that when the new wharf at Devonport was being built the borough should build a retaining wall along Queen’s Parade and that the Harbour Board would pump behind this wall any silt that it had to move to make the berths at the new wharf. Last night the council received a draft agreement from the Harbour Board that caused some alarm. Mr. Hislop pointed out that the borough borrowed £9,000 to build the wall. The board now proposed to make the borough pay all the cost of filling behind it and then the wall would belong to the Harbour Board. The borough would be paying £12,000 for an acre of reclaimed ground. He could not see why the borough should pay for the dredging of the harbour. By building the wall the council had provided a dumping-place for silt from the harbour, and saved the board thousands of pounds. “They do not even pay a threepenny bit to the maintenance of the wall when it is finished,” he added. It was resolved to have the agreement altered to line up with the original proposal.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 3
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202COST OF DREDGING Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 3
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