HARBOUR WORKS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 92, 11 January 1908, Page 6

HARBOUR WORKS.

(nr. TELEGIIAPIX —rP.EES ASSOCIATION.) Tlmaru,.,January 10. Tho Harbour. Board' to-day- pouaidered a special report by.'Mr. J. P,/Maxwell on tho wiiarfago needed now, and, tho;fiituro expansion of tho harbour. In regardito tho latter, ho purposes to remove tho north molo, and .construct'a new ono to provide* a.larger area; also to extend by 500.feet' tho eastern breakwater Teccntly completed: 'Tho Board accepted, with slight modificatdon' of'position, this proposal for a 600 feet jetty in ferroconcrete. Tho other proposals 'were left to tho future. It was resolved'also to advertiso for a resident engineer.!at;'£4oo. GFirlstchurch, January 10. ■ Mr. Hood-Williams, Secretary." of tho Lyttelton Harbour . Board, liais received a letter from Mr. Wilson, the' Engineer, who caino out herb some little timo ago to • inspect and report upon harbour, oxtorision, including tho ships', canal t;o Christchurch. Mr. Wilson writes that lie. oxjiectcd to finish his report-by Christinas, and .that it- would bo ready for transmission to the Dominion early in ,tho present month. That means that .it ourjht to reach here at tho-end of February or the beginning of March. Tho arrival will be looked forward to with a great deal of interest locally. >' Wariganul,. January 10. The Harbour Board to-night decided to appoint a resident engineer in obnnectioii: with the extonsivo harbour works about to bo undertaken. Mr. Leslie' Reynolds was appointed ■ consulting engineer at £200 a s ...