NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR.
A COOD FUTURE. MR. MARCH A NTS VIEWS. In the opinion' of Mr. F. W. Man-haul, the. consulting engineer to the New Plymouth Harbor Hoard, who is at present in New Ply/mouth, the harbor at New Plymouth has a good future -before it. Mr. Mai-chant has just returned from England, and has .seen the harbor and conferred with the New Plymouth Harbor Hoard.
Mr. Marchaiit told a Daily News representative yesterday that he was .much pleased with'the state of affairs at the port. ■ '\lierth a large vessel?" echoed Mr. Marchaiit in answer to. a. query by the pressman as to the accommodation at the liarbor; "of course it can. Why. when the first liig boat entered Tiniaru harbor (the. Fifoshire, an 8000-ton boat, I think it was) there was not half so good a liarbor there as there is at Xew Plymouth to-day. At Tiniaru there is a rise ami fall with the tide of only sft (iin. At Moturoa there is a rise and fall of 10ft." In additinv, he remarked, thn Tiniaru harbor was in a more exposed position than Moturoa. In Mr. Marc.haut's opinion there was no doubt that ha<l the Rimutaka come to Xew Plymouth she could have been successfully -berthed. "They talk," be said, "of vessels breaking away from their moorings. That might happen ■anywhere, and is no more likely to happen in Scar Plymouth than elsewhere. You have a good dredge and good men •to work it."
Referring generally to the work which has 'been done at the harbor, Mr. M'ar--chant remarked that lie did not- think there was much he could say. His was more, of an informal visit than anything else. The dredging had been ver\ successfully carried out. (If course the .shipping companies.'by exacting that an additional three feet should be dredged ■omt over what bad ibeeu anticipated bad •entailed more work-on Ibe part of the dmrbor stall'. "Yes," lie said, "I do agree, that the shipping companies appear to ibe imposing rigorous conditions .on Niwv Plymouth as a harbor." v Mr. .Marchaiit concluded hv paving a .tribute to the capabilities of'the harbor and -dredging staff.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1914, Page 2
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358NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1914, Page 2
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