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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 147, 22 June 1911, Page 5

Mr H. Friedlander (chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board) lately com--pleted a tour of inspection of the Lyttelton harbour, going over all the wharves, the dock, and other departments. During Ms inspection he saw ironbark piles which had been in the water for twentyseven years without having been sheathed and which showed no sign of decay. The appearance of these piles afforded him an opportunity to make a contrast with piles he saw in the Auckland harbour, where on wharves erected only eight years ago, he said, some piles are "absolutely hanging." It is stated that the chemical constituents in the mud in Lyttelton harbour destroy the teredo insect which attacks timber in the water. Herr Eaimund Pechotsch has a notice in this issue stating that he ■will receive pupils for violin, voice production, singing, and piano, at his music studio, Mutual Life Buildings. Don't let Coronatioa week pass without selecting a i^srnoT?*