TIMARU.
This day.
Mr Goodall, engineer for the Harbor Board, left this morning for Wellington to submit to tbe Commission plans and specifications for thirty feet of mole, to cost not less than £20,000. It is proposed to start at the point Mr Balfour commenced the breakwater a few years ago. It will be constructed of two solid walls of concrete in blocks of thirty tons eacb, the space between being filled with rubble. The walls will be an average thickness of ten feet each. The mole will be 27 feet broad at tbe base and 28 feet at the top (P), and covered with solid minolith concrete five feet thick. It will be thirteen feet above low water* and six feet above ordinary spring tide. Tbe greatest depth at low water will be fourteen feet. Should the Com* mission approve of the plans, tenders will be called at once. The work then can commence in three months' time, and the engineer estimates it can be finished in six months from then. The Harbor Board have rescinded the former reiolution to get Sir John Coode over here. Mr Stafford has issued an address to the electors, resigning his seat for Timaru in tbe Assembly.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2822, 1 March 1878, Page 2
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204TIMARU. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2822, 1 March 1878, Page 2
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