RECLAMATION WORKS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 77, 24 December 1930, Page 6

RECLAMATION WORKS

Shingle From Off Petone Botlie the Wellington Harbour Board dredges have been employed for some weeks past in dredging the bottom of the harbour off the ePtone foreshore. On inquiry as to whether there was any particular object in deepening the harbour off. Petone, the reply was to the effect that the dredges were only securing good filling for the Ka’iwarra-Thorndon reclamation, which is due for completion next year. Another projected reclamation is that strip of land between the ramp now in process of formation from fifty to a hundred yards to the eastward of the Hutt Road with the spoil from the railway tunnels on the new diversion route of the Main Trunk line. This very solid embankment, which is graded in height from the tunnel portal, will extend southward almost as far as the Kaiwarra Bight. It already shuts out the view of the harbour from the Hutt Road for about, half a mile, and when completed will probably have that effect for the best part of a mile. Its formation leaves a strip of water between the ramp and the railway line, which will form a valuable piece of sheltered land when filled in some time in the future. As it lies between the two railway lines the matter of access is not easy, but doubtless the railway authorities will find some good use for it. Good progress is being made with the preparation work for the Harbour Board’s floating dock, to be located off the new reclamation (Kaiwarra end).