STRENGTHENING PRINCE'S WHARF.
CONCRETE AND SCORIA WALL. Anything connected with the wharves is noted with avidity just now, and considerable interest has been taken by the public in some work that has been going on at the head of the fine new Prince's wharf. Something under a hundred feet of this wharf, on the western side at the head—that part abutting on the shore —is built against a wall that was constructed to contain the spoil pumped into the area that was reclaimed to strengthen up Quay Street at this spot. It will be remembered that the head of the old Hobson Street wharf was in a position different from that of the ferroconcrete structure that took its place. During the past three weeks gangs of men have been busy building a supporting wall underneath the wharf. The method adopted is ingenious. Bags of wet concrete are lowered over the wharf and conveyed to the base of the wall by shoots. These bags, laid one on top of the other, set just as solidly under water as out of it, and ultimately make a wall that holds its position by sheer weight. At the back of this wall of bagged concrete (which is wide at tin , base and slopes to the topi scoria rilling from Rangitoto has been brought up in barges and dumped in.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 283, 28 November 1924, Page 7
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225STRENGTHENING PRINCE'S WHARF. Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 283, 28 November 1924, Page 7
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