WHARF COLLAPSES.
AUCKLAND INQUIRY. (BY TELEGRAPH —PREBR ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, Nov. 27. The principal witness to-d-ay at the commission of enquiry into the collapse of Western wharf was Mr Hamer, the Harbour Board’s engineer, who was reexamined as to the movement in the wall alongside the wharf, and in reference to the letter sent by him from America concerning the construction of the wharf, in which he expressed the opinion that a test was inevitable, as settlement would occur. ~ Captain Sergeant, the harbourmaster, described as “absolute bunkum” the theory of one witness that the test tide flowed through the tide deflector. O. W. Schultz, formerly a shipmaster, condemned the system of tide deflectors as tending to silt up the hafbour. William Jones, motor lorry driver, said he was tipping material at the end of the wharf when it started to move. He tipped the load and went for his life, running the motor over the sinking structure. There was no noise at all. At a later stage Mr Williams (one of the commissioners) said this witness had all his wits about him. The' inquiry was adjourned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 November 1924, Page 5
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