RELIEF PORT URGED
•There is a definite lack of facilities between Lyttelton and Christchurch i and at busy periods/the port is taxed to its 'utmost," said Mr. J. Longton, chairman off the. Port Christchurch League,'to a; meeting of members, in advocating the establishment of a relief port in. the estuary (reports the "Press"). The whole of the wharf I space at Lyttelton was needed, he conand any increase of wharfage I would Testrict the water space and cause inconvenience to shipping. Referring to the facilities connecting the port to the city, and the proposed tunnel road, Mr. Longton said that in his opinion the cost would be prohibitive, being somewhere in the vicinity of £4,000,000, including the expense of wharf rearrangement. Mr. R. B. Cotton said that now that the cost of the tunnel road ha"d been officially stated as being over £3,500,000, no person could continue to advocate this scheme. Trade, he averred, would not carry so huge a burden and for that reason the only means by which the province could obtain economical access to the sea was by constructing a port in the estuary. ___^_^_____
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 69, 18 September 1936, Page 6
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187RELIEF PORT URGED Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 69, 18 September 1936, Page 6
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