PORT OF TAURANGA.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 164, 11 July 1919, Page 4

PORT OF TAURANGA.

DEEP WATER SCHEME. TO LUST £123,000. (By Telegraph.— Own Correspondent.) TAUIIAMJA, this day. At a meeting of the Harbour Board yesterdaj a report was received from Mr Blair Mason on the development miJ improvement of Tauranga Harbour. Tlie report states that as a port in the Bay <.t Plenty, rapable of improvement into a first-class port at the least cost, to admit large vessels, Tauranga seems destined in the natural course of events to become the principal outlet for the produce of this fertile and important part of the Dominion. Proposals for improvement are divided under two heads—tinst. immediate works inside, to take large vessels up to 23ft draught that can now negotiate the entrance; and, second, works for the admission of vessels of extreme draught at all states ol the tid«. \Vork= immediately necessary to meet the needs of the port and intreariiii' its trade ere estimated to cost i77,7*)it. plus .C 30.000 for a. dredger. The Board decided yesterday to promote an Empowering Bill to raise i;li5.ooo.