UNION STEAMSHIP CO

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 May 1914, Page 7

UNION STEAMSHIP CO

HUGE FUEL DEPOT. £IOO,OOO TO BE EXPENDED. SYDNEY, May 16. The north side of the harbour has, up to the present, been given over almost entirely to residential purposes, with few industries along the foreshores The scheme of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, Ltd. to establish a huge fuel depot there probably marks an important industrial movement on that side. Seme time ago the company obtained a lease from the Government of about 2Jf acres along the foresnores between Ball's Head and Kerosene Bay. and it is there the depot is to be established. The extent of the proposed scheme «hows considerable enterprise, not rnerelv in the £IOO,OOO likely to be ex'VMide'd, but in the nature of the facilities to ho provided. Huge transferrers for the loading of cord iwo likely to be installed, in addition to other machinery of the most up-to-date character. , The question of the relative values of oil and coal as fuel has not yet been definitely settled, and before finally deciding upon the details of the new works further irouiry is_ to be made, chiefly in America. For thi* prjrpose the architect. Mr. Stowe. will spend fho next few mouths in the United States and upon his return the work will he proceeded with. The proposal put before the North Svdney Council included ■ the erection of six hu?p oil tanks, with a total capacity of shores will have to bp cut away to aWr place to these. They will be surrounded bv heavy masonry, in strict arc-i-danci will) the reouiremeuls of '"fiOalive enactments, and have been fully submitted to the Chief Inspector

of tho Explosive Department. The coal storage depot is plactd about 50ft. above high-water mark, and v.'ilL be over 400 feet long by about 170 feet wide, with capacity for something like 150,000 tons. The transferrers will traverse the front of this at ;i higher level. ■

The plan shows also T a. Umberwharf. 250 f<*-t lon,"„ at the iH;rth.>nd of the ground, and at the .sou.th'firn end is space for -workshops, anticipated to be erwfced in. the near fiitu-re, -for Die repairing of the company's boats. These are to be .constructed of steel and iron. A jetty will run out from,the site of the workshops, and between.it and thp t.imlvr whirf dolphins will he olacd for the berthing of colliers. This will givf» a' water-front of about 700 feet with a depth of water at low tide of "5 feet. Consider-iMe excavation will He necessary to make th<y lard piv+.-'bh' for the purnose in view.- : Dredging, will scarcelv he required, for tho d'Mith of \vM"r oli lt h£s .point is the Greatest in the harho.ur.,:.':