LYTTELTON HARBOUR.
BIG IMPROVEMENT SCHEME. £300,000 TO BE SPENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Details of a further loan of £300 : 000, for which it will seek legislative authority, were placed before (he Lyttelton Harbour Board to-day. Discussion was deferred until the next meeting. A report by the engineer, Mr. C. J. R. Williams, set out thtt applications were now coming in fur the balance of the board's £150,000 loan, and he anticipated that in a few days the amount of £50,200 required to exhaust the board's borrowing powers of £150,000 would have been obtained. It was proposed that the allocation of the expenditure of the new loan should be as follows: Additions to wharves, £85,600; cranes and capstans on wharves, £82,400; travelling crane at the dock, £12,000; a new dredge, £120,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1926, Page 16
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132LYTTELTON HARBOUR. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1926, Page 16
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