SMALL CRAFT.
REMOVAL FROM MOORINGS. I OEAREI BOAT HARBOUR SCHEME. The work of shifting the moorings of a number of yachts and pleasure boats from the western skip of the eastern tide-dpflector is proceeding, and by the end of the month a considerable area in that locality will be cleared to provide space needed in connection with operations of trans-ocean flying craft. So far, no provision has been made for new moorings for the craft which have to be shifted, although a number of them have already been hauled out for thoir winter quarters on -tlie foreslmrp of different parts of the hnrbotir. The chairman of the Am-klnm! Harbour Board. Mr. W. J!. Darlow. said today that th<» l>oanl wu-< ri'iuly io go ahead with the construction of the proposed bout harbour at Omkei, which was intended to provide safe and sheltered anchorage for a larire number of boats. The sanction of the Minister of Marine had not yet been received. Until the board had ithat authority the scheme could not proceed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 12
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