EASTERN BOAT HARBOUR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 6

EASTERN BOAT HARBOUR

UNFAVOURABLE REPORT ON HOBSON BAY PLAN EXPENDITURE UNWARRANTED The scheme proposed by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron that a boat harbour should be formed in the triangular area between the Waterfront Road and the railway embankment in Hobson Bay came before the Harbour Board yesterday. In a letter, the district engineer of i the Public Works Department asked whether the board was prepared to j contribute toward the cost of raising j No. 2 bridge on the road -4 ft. to per- j mit of launches passing beneath it. ! The matter was urgent because the i department proposed immediately to! proceed with the bridge. If raised j as proposed, it would permit launches rising 7ft. 6in. above the waterline to pass beneath. The estimated cost of raising the bridge ran from £668 for one foot to £s,7t»y tor five feet;. For foflr feet it was .<£3,437. Reporting, the boards engineer, Mr. D. Holderness, said the design of the bridge as approved in April gave a clearance of 6ft 6in at mean high water. The area was dry at low water spring tide except for a channel leading to a bridge in the railway embankment. The channel was being dredged by the Public Works Department, an operation which might affect I the use of the area by pleasure craft. The engineer considered that as the j board had spent a large sum in con-1 nection with the St. Mary’s Bay boat harbour it should not be called upon to spend more on a new scheme, par-1 ticularly in view of the depth of water and means of access. The board-in-committee will report. |