Auckland's Harbour.
» COMPREHENSIVE IMPROVEMENT SCHEME. (Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, July 6. ' A At to-day's meeting of the Har--1 Board the engineer (Mr W. H. Hanier) submitted a comprehensive scheme for harbour improvements. Briefly his proposal is to albolisih the ' present system of wharfage accommodation and build a line of newjetties projected at right angles, or nearly so, to the present frontage : line. In order to overcome objections as to the jetticjs being across the tidn it is proposed to construct two projecting breakwaters on the eastern and western sides of the harbour respectively. It is proposed to obolish the present Queen-street wharf and tees, and construct a new wharf 280 ft wide in continuation of ' Queen-street. The railway wharf is also condemned as unsuitable, and it is proposed to project a new wharf 600f; seaward of the present frontage. This scheme, in the opinion of the engineer, could be gradually carried out as the finances permitted. The cost of the w'orks considered urgent (which includes the new Queenstreet wharf) is estimated at about |k, £287,000, and if a sixty-ton floating 'derrick and suction dredge bo purchased the additional cost will be about £53,000. '. T'o board deferred consideration of the report,
CABLE HEWS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 158, 8 July 1904, Page 3
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208Auckland's Harbour. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 158, 8 July 1904, Page 3
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