A SOON TO BOATING MEN.

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1899, Page 6

A SOON TO BOATING MEN.

♦ PROVISION FOR A BOAT HARBOUR. It will be good news to the boating men of the city that by a decision arrived at at yesterday's meeting the Harbour Board practically committed itself to an expenditure of about £10,000 in providing a boat harbour at Clyde-quay. The position is this — The City Council proposes widening Clyde-quay to 100 ft for some distance towards Oriental Bay from the Destructor Avail. The Engineer of the Harbour Board (Mr. W. Ferguson) proposes that the widening of the road to 100 ft shall begin from the foot of Kentterrace, and that the approach to the dock site from Clyde-quay shall ran out at the bend hear Mrs. Meech's baths, about 100 ft further towards the north-west than was originally provided, and that the road approach authorised under the recent Act should be thrown into the Corporation yards, to compensate the Corporation for widening the roadway. The Board approved the plans submitted yesterday afternoon by Mr. Ferguson, which included the proposed concrete walls enclosing the boat harbour, a slipway for moderate-sized yachts, and dredging to make it available, as well as the construction of the wall on the eastern side of the baths. The Engineer was instructed to proceed with the plans and to communicate with the City Council asking for its consent to their adoption, and then to send them on to the Government for final approval. As soon as this is done the commencement of the work may be looked for. The area, to be enclosed is about five acres. The City Council last night unanimously approved the Harbour Board's proposals, under which by the sacrifice of about a few perches of land it will be enabled to construct a 100 ft road continuously from Courtenay-place to the City boundary at Roseneath.