THE BOAT HARBOUR.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 51, 2 March 1905, Page 6

THE BOAT HARBOUR.

PLAN'S i OF ROATSHEDS. Pinna fnrthoproposed- boal-aheds at- the boat hnrbour, Clyde-*fuay, tiro open to inspection attlluv.om'ce.s of the Wellington Harbour Boiird. The sheds will bo built out froni'below-tbo prehent.brick wall, that, is, on the.southwOr-Olyde-quuy side of the boat'harbour. Along tho breastwork hero thero is room foribnihJing about fifty-seven shells, and- when this, sideof the boat harbour is filled, thero will still* be room on tho wesUsido for moro boat-sheds to be puto-up for tl»o boating chib.s now near Jcrvois-quay, wiioso present leases will tlwy desire, take advantage- of the spaeo offered them on tho west-sido of the boat harbour. Judging from the remark*' of Captain Bell (Wellington Nnval Artillery Volunteers) «t thonneeting of.'tho Old Wellington Hswals' Association b\t>t evening, the Navals' bon tslied will lmve io be shifted at an early dale, as- tho skids will be blockcd'-.'is a result of 1 the erection of the new Tn.ru.mvki -street wharf. Captain Hell s«id it would bo necessary to- shift tho bulding to the nexv site offered by Mr. Ferguson in tho.boal harbour. Wlien the slied wn.s.erectcxlwit was known .that this would hnvo' t o be done some time, and for that purpose it wus.built on skids. It was proposed to get a- working bee to cart the shed to its new site. Coming back to tho south side of the boat harbour, where tho Harbour Board intends to erect tho new ttheds, we learn that, for sanitary reasons, tho foundations wilt be of concrete. Tho sheds will oxtend about 50ft out into tho present boat harbour aren, tuid an application has been made by tho Board for an Order-in-Connoil authorising the necessary reclamation. About twenty-four .sheds will be erectf d to begin with, for the uso of yachting clulx, otc, and tho plain provide that tho roofs of tho shedn will not appear above the Clydc-ijuay wall, and .therefore will "not ohsiruct the view of promenuders and icsidents. A light has Wen placed on the outer wull al tliP-enliaiKt to the bout harbour.