No Way To Move Barrett’s Reef
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 19. A suggestion that a few depth charges be placed on the bottom of Barrett’s Reef was impracticable said the chief engineer of the Wellington Harbour Board (Mr A. J. H. Hutchison) today.
When the question of blasting away the reef with depth charges was referred to Mr Hutchison, he said the area was too big for such an operation. The reef was a collection of hundreds of individual rocks extending 5000 feet into Cook Strait. It varied
■ from several hundred feet to i 1000 feet in breadth. Mr Hutchison said that the harbour entrance was quite • wide, being 4000 feet to 5000 feet between the edge of the reef and Inconstant Point on the Pencarrow side. In many other harbours of the world the entrances were only a few hundred feet, he said. It was only in the most exceptional bad weather that Barrett’s Reef was a danger to shipping.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31659, 20 April 1968, Page 36
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