DEVONPORT'S NEW WHARF.
Work on dismantling Devonport's rickety old wooden wharf has been begun by the Auckland Harbour Board's workmen. To-day a big crane, mounted on a pontoon, was drawing the piles of half the pier at the land end, and the decking followed. This necessitates the pedestrians temporarily using the vehicular traffic half of the wharf. Over half' the length of the wharf on the pedestrians' side has teen ripped up, and no time will be lost in getting a start with the new ferro-concrete structure. The board has a very expert gang of men specially trained to this ferroconcrete work, men who have probably had more experience than any other set in the Dominion or Australia either, for ferro-concrete lias been more extensively used in Auckland for wharf building than in any other port in either the Dominion or the Commonwealth.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1927, Page 11
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143DEVONPORT'S NEW WHARF. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1927, Page 11
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