“The Press” In 1866

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31196, 21 October 1966, Page 10

“The Press” In 1866

October 21 Amongst the subjects mentioned by the Superintendent in his opening address to the Council is that of wharf accommodation at Lyttelton: and indeed the time has arrived when a final decision on this question can be no longer delayed. We may now rely on the opening of the Tunnel in the course of the next year as a matter of tolerable certainty: and it is clear that the value of this great work will be only half realised unless vessels can discharge their cargoes at once into the railway carriages. The question is what is to be done. We need not go again over all the old discussions on this subject; it will

be sufficient to take the question up as it stands now, taking into consideration the works already done and the money already expended. Three works have been commenced and are in the course of construction. Firstly, the sea wall reclaiming the land in the front of Norwich quay on which the railway station is to stand; secondly, the screw pile jetty in accordance with the recommendations of the Lyttelton Commissioners, which runs out from the end of the old Government jetty in a south-westerly direction; and, thirdly, the breakwater at Officers Point, which is being constructed by means of prison labor in a direction indicated by nearly every one who has investigated the subject.