NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81825, 18 August 1906, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR.

further whakf extension. The Foreman reported at yesterday's meeting af the Harbor Board that the present wharf extension was completed, with the exception of chafing pieces, which are not to hand. The new rails may now be laid and permanent sites selected for sheds and offices. The Chairman said that in spite of all the worts done so far this year the overdraft hud been roduced bv about £6OO, Mr Maxwell adyocated tlie extension of the wharf, until the face was in line with the breakwater, He had alwai been in favour of extension, but li question had been one of ways an means, ov* that the Board was in healthy financial position, they shonl put their pnergies towards making tt wharf facilities as up-to-date as po: siblo. He ooasidered it just as itnpoi tant to continue the wharf as tli breakwa'er, He pointed out that saying would be effected in dredgin in having berths in deeper water, sue as the extension would give. Mj; Nowton Tving said that Hi Board was m a position to carry on both wharf and breakwater extensio simultaneously. He suggested, lion ever, that for the present the moye confine his resolution to an extensio ol 170 fent, the length of a new berth Tlie Chairman (Mr J. B. Conned supported the suggestion. He had m doubt if finances permitted every mem her of the Boiu'd woqlil support fur tlior extension when the neoossiti arose, Mr Maxwell agreed to alter liii motion to read as follows: "That tin 'construction of the wharf extension be continued until the straight face froir the breakwater is completed in a eon tinuous line for 170 feet from the end of the present extension, the work to be carried out as expeditiously as possiblo." Mr McLean seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously. It was decided to call tenders for the work, rptumablo at the October meeting. ' '