HARBOUR BOARD
FORTNIGHTLY MEETING WHARF CONSTRUCTION The Auckland Harbour Board met yesterday afternoon, the chairman, Mr. H. R. Mackenzie, presiding. The board is to discuss in committee a request from the engineer and town clerk of Birkenhead that the board refrain from granting fresh leases for the dinghy lockers on the expiration of the existing tenures, and that the waterfront road reserved by the board and maintained by the council be handed over to and controlled by the Borough Council. The honorary secretary of the Waitemata Bridge Committee wrote asking the board to appoint three representatives to act on the committee and also appealed for funds to enable the committee to carry on its campaign. This was referred to the board in committee. A complaint regarding the congestion of traffic on Prince’s Wharf when a fruit vessel was being unloaded was received from the Auckland Fruit Importers’ Association. The traffic manager had replied that the difficulty would not be wholly overcome until loading operations were transferred to another shed. Congestion would always take place at busy times. The board will Investigate the position. The engineer reported that passenger and vehicular traffic had been diverted on to the new cargo wharf approach at Devonport and the remainder of the old wooden approach would be demolished. Good progress was being made with the new vehicular bridge for which the balance of the materials had come to hand. Heavy weather was delaying the pile driving and concreting operations. The whole of the Calliope Dock had been converted to alternating current and was running satisfactorily. Extensive repairs were being affected to Waipipi Wharf and when these were completed the breastwork at Waiuku Wharf would be repaired. Within the last few days about 75 feet of the breastwork had collapsed. The report was adopted.
Regarding the Allsop’s Bay Road, in the Franklin County Council, the chairman said he was pleased to report that the Public Works Department was engaged on it and was using unemployed men for the purpose
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 101, 20 July 1927, Page 16
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