Time-limit set to save tug
Organisations interested In preserving the tug Lyttelton, mainly the Ferrymead Trust and the Canterbury Steam Preservation Society, have been given two months by the Lyttelt:n Harbour Board to come up with a firm proposal.
The trust said yesterday that the proposal at present: was to sail the tug from the harbour into the Estuary and up the channel to the Ferry Road bridge, where a „mall basin could be dredged for it in the mud flat near Humphreys Drive. Soundings made on the bar
and up the channel indicate that there are no insurmountable problems, except that: there would have to be a favourable high spring tide and good weather. The trust had asked if a ’decision to scrap the tug could be delayed, pending Icompletion of its proposals land the starting of schemes ifor fund raising. “We txa’t let this drag on indefinitely, and if there is no oositive response we will just have to put the tug up for tender,” said the chairman |of the board (Mr J. Brand), however.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33215, 3 May 1973, Page 20
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