HARBOR BOARD REPORTS.

Evening Star, Issue 14628, 26 July 1911, Page 8

HARBOR BOARD REPORTS.

The following reports by the engineer will bo submitted at to-morrow's meeting of tiie Otago Harbor' Board : Dredging.•—Dredge 222 on the 10th of this mouth skill eel her moorings in the Upper Harbor and lelaid them near the entrance to the new dock. She is now engaged in dredging a berth for tho propesed dock wharf. From the lofii Juno, when the dredgo went Jino commission after her annual overhaul, to tho oikh June, 335 cubic yards were removed from a shoal patch at the entrance; to tho cross channel, b\3oo cubic yards from the Victoria channel in the vicinity of piles 7 and 8, and 11,662 cubic yards from the Victoria wharf swinging bar-in, making a total of 20,b25 cubic yards, which were deposited at the Vulcan and pumped on to the reclamation between Frederick and Mason streets. Dredge Vulcan is at prosent receiving spoil from dredge 404, which consists of a huge quantity of oyster shells. Tho reclamation area, is Hearing completion. Tho northern end consists of sludge from the dredged material, and is of a very soft nature. Arrangements are being made to displace this Materia! <u to the area, north of I'Tcderick street, and to retain the heavier material for the. present, reclamation. Tho pump runner and shaft are in bad condition, causing a loo; of efficiency iu the. pump. It is necessary that, these receive immediate attention. Dredge 404 finished at piles 14 and lo on tho 4th insi., ami changed her moorings to pile 20 to remove a small shoal. She finished at pile 20 on tin10th insf., and lelaid her moorings a ".■ pile 1. Ilor second set of moorings are at Kitchener street wharf. During Juno dredge 40-1 removed 15,200 cubir yauis from piles 14 and 15. Victoria channel, and 5,5U0 cubic yards from die .Kttcbener strcet berth, making a. total of .ie,700 cubic yards. Dredge Priest.man ;s Icing used for the purpose of liriviug the loi.k drill at Port Chalmers. It s expected to have the present rock rem >vd by the end of this month. Heads Works.—For the four weeks ended the 15th July 1,077 ?übic yards of st<-ne were deposited on the north spit, wa'.i opposite Harrington Point .it a Kit- <>2 float 2s 4d per cubic yard for getting and oopositing, and about 6d per ctd.de y«id mr towins.

Various Works.—R shed. Tin- conrntc door is finished, the Customs ottko erectrd. and electric light is now being installed. Ten of tho doors .are still to be put m j* si lion. Arrangements are being made, with the, City Engineer in re tho grading and formation of water channels a; tin- approaches to the .shed. Some piles and timber camo to hand during thin mouth for tho Kitchener street, wharf. These

have been driven, making a. total of bOJ:t of the wharf finished. .Shinning '.-> new using tin's portion of the wharf. It. is intended to nii in with timber the. coiner between the A shed and Kitchener streetvt hart, which will give access from the Kitchener street whari to the- south-cas; door of the A shed. The road formation facing Kitchener ,-.t reet is practkn'ly fiiikdied, with the exception e.f the ib-m----neiling and a narrow strip of formation alongside the channel. which will be finished as the idiann.-i is completed. The Portobeilo wharf decking is completed, and it is intended to rcmovo the sLens at tlie back of the wharf to another position and deck over the landing. Pile, No. 12. knocked over by the Chit ha Riv t -r boat, has been replaced. The .-.lorm water m!lccting in the low-lying hinds, between -he railway and Ward street has been drained into the Lcith. 'the banks on the reclamation north of Frederick street ate being raised so as to retain tho soft male rial, which is to be. deposited on this area, fiom the present reclamation. A considerable quantity of material is being received on tno low land at the north end of Ward street to raise the* embankments 60 that tho reclamation may be brought up to permanent, level. A new boat has been made at tho workshop lor dredge 404. The necessary arrangements with the Cite Council in re the water mains e-.id water tabie at the coal dump. Biicii street, have been completed. 'lhe council expect to start during this week on the construction of t&e water-table on the north side of Birch street, half-cost te be borne by the board. 'J'ho wharf Jaborurs' building is completed with the. exception of the connection to the sewer, which the Drainage Board have been asked to make. 'The usual repairs have been effected to the -wharves, shed-, and punts.