HARBOUR CONTRACTS.
COMPLETED; OR UNDER WAT. ■ •In view of "recentdiscussion', on Har> hour Finance, a.list of Harbour Board.' contracts v just completed,f and still'-under , • , way, is" of interest as' stowing ■" 6ome_ o. Jf > tho sources of large expenditure.:, Th« King's Wharf work .has been completed, but has given rise, to a neat v deal _o! adverse'Comment,;and\ pactions v tnat ; : r more motiey will'- still have_ to be spent. .. .■ on the structure, which; will even then v be unsatisfactory, principally by , of the . wharf, itself and the sheds being .too narrow. : The. Petone. wharf also_ is - completed, - but pile-drivingjs still going on, to stiffen the ai&ing structure. The dook: contraot; lias, loomed ; large: in tha.;public eye .of late, and experiment still being • camed;.on..,^^^•m^.<»^» c W'.«. date back to .1906; when 'the. .King> . Wharf was -started, k;;,; ■ -The various ; :contract. prices ~ Waterloo Quay ••• 85, M Miramar ■ Wharf •• ; 13,882 -Miramar Reclamation .... . 5 26,328 : Clvde -Quay, Wharf..........■-■■ 30,755-., ! Potoiie' Wharf . 9,412 ■■ , . ' King's Wharf .................. 79,440 ; Dock 196, Ml J Shed 23,596 - Tot'il JMU,7B2.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 733, 4 February 1910, Page 4
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168HARBOUR CONTRACTS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 733, 4 February 1910, Page 4
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