FLOATING DOCK
TEIAL ON SATURDAY
NOT A PUBLIC OPENING
The floating dock's trial takes place on Saturday next, and not on Thursday; ' as previously announced. The ' NewZealand Shipping Company's liner Euahine will be the vessel used to test the dock. The chairman of the Wellington Har« bour Board, Mr. G. B. Norwood, stated to-day that the test on Saturday' will be the official trial required under< the terms of the contract. The test will be carried out strictly in accordance with contract conditipns, and the Buahine will be lifted higher than would be nominally the* case were she simply N docked for repairs. This is because the dock's lifting- capacity is 17,500 tons, whereas the Euahine does not weigh more than 12,000 tons, and because it is desired' to test the dock thoroughly. . ' '.."''. This test "with the Euahine will be in. no sense a public ceremony in connection, with the taking over of the dock by the Harbour Board.; That\may come - later at a more suitable time. The test is, one which concerns only-the contractors and the Harbour1 Bpard, and:' ia order not to hamper 'operations in any way, the public will- be excluded from, the dock and the wharf in the vicinity. But that will not preclude the public from watching the proceeding^ which will last all day, from theinany possible points of vantage. The- Euahine will leave her berth probably about . 7 o'clock in the morning, entering' the dock an hour or two later. Then- she will be slowly lifted high and dry, remaining in the dock all day, and finally being towed put again at. about 4 p.m. The entering of the dock and the raising of the vessel will be the .two * operations that will most interest the public. A great deal of preparatory , work is involved in the test, especially as Harbour Board officials are new. to floating dock manipulations. The dock was submerged to a depth, of. 26 feet this morning—the final. submergenea test before Saturday's lift, and it will jprob'ably remain so submerged until Saturday morning. . On Friday morning His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, will inspect- the dock.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 8
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356FLOATING DOCK Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 8
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