WAIOTAHI FLAT.—PROPOSED ERECTION OF WHARF.

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18409, 1 August 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

WAIOTAHI FLAT.—PROPOSED ERECTION OF WHARF.

(Extracfc from first issue of "The Thames

Ad\ertieer."j

We understand that it is intended to ereci a wharf at the new township of Waiotahi, and the preliminary steps have been taken with this view. Tho stoixj-keopers and others in the neighbourhood are contributing towards the object, and tho steam-boat proprietors have signified their intention of assist ing the work. Plans have been pre.

pared by Mr Mack and the levels : taken, pegs have been driven in at a height of 4 feet 6 inches. It is intended Ito extend the jetty four hundred and fifty feeb 'with ■hi width of 15 feet. Tho piles iM-e to be three feet apart. The centra will bo filled in with timber and stone, the latter taken from Mulligan's claim, on the Waioitahi, so that by this means tho difficulty of want of solidity wh?ch has hithertol presented itself as an obstacle to tho erection of a woodeu wharf, will be overcome. Two jplans are prepared, the one not approved of beiag for a wharf 300 feet by 21 feet, with an end T, at a similar estimated cost, but not\ so convenient. The cost is to be £490, and .the place selected provides for vessels arriving alongside at halftide, the depth of water aifc high tide being 8 loot 6 inches.