JACKSONS BAY HARBOUR

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22305, 20 January 1938, Page 12

JACKSONS BAY HARBOUR

TENDERS FOR WHARF APPROVED

WORK TO BEGIN WHEN TIMBER ARRIVES [THE PRESS Special Service.] GREYMOUTH, January 19. Work on the construction of the wharf and approaches required for the new harbour at Jackson’s Bay, in South Westland, will begin as soon as the hardwood timber needed for the work arrives from Australia. Approval of a tender from the Rope Construction Company, Ltd., for the building of the wharf and approaches has been given by the Public Works Department. The contract price is £ 12,529. Mr R. Trevor Smith, the department’s district engineer on the West Coast, said in an interview at Greymouth that the wharf would be about 500 feet long, including the approaches, of which 200 feet would be taken up by a quay at one end. The deptli of water available at the wharf would be about 14 feet at low water during the spring tides. Men are being transferred from work on the Lewis Pass road to Jackson’s Bay as fast as the department’s ship, the Gael, can cope with them. About 30 are there now, but many more will have to be put on the job before the project is under way. In the meantime, the establishment of a public works camp at the bay is going ahead steadily.