OPUNAKE HARBOUR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 July 1925, Page 12

OPUNAKE HARBOUR.

MEETING OF BOARD. At the July meeting of the Opunake Haiijinir board ii ww, repmted that the amount: ol rates outstanding was d4wi>. It tv.tM tleeine.l 111..1 an rates outstanding alter the 2<>i.h ol August oe sued ior. era;inker’:-; m:i out. 'file beard's engineer (Air. F. .M. C.nkill) reported upon the work earned out (lining the past, month: file weather < ..iidiliun.-. have been exceed!ngiy had I’m uitdimj wmk, and poor progiexN has been made on that • ice.unit. Four days weie entiiely lost to nio-.t (.1 the men, and on othei days heavy seas made no beach woik po.s.it.le ovyn at low tide. Staging.—-Tliree bays were completed in spite of the heavy weather, making 1 1.) ieet. or one hay moie lium hall lie total length to he constructed. Bench. Steady pi ogress ha.s been made 011 this work. Mole..—-A .stiong westerly and! a very seveio- south-ea-tei ly gale occurred during the peiiotl. The work •-(> tar ■done stood no quite well. The outer, or exposed slope of the mole stands up perfectly to the designed slope, but the Miner side, of smaller stone, lequire.s a slightly hatter slope than that anticipated. Only -low progress ha* been made on account of the weather. The upper portion of the beach, has been cleared for about 8(10 feet from t.he mole, but it ha.s been impossible to get at all the big stone still lying near low water mark, and the crane i* bein'’’ moved on again to get at a fresh portion of the beach.

Wharf. —After completing 19 piles (30 feet long) work on these has been 'topped pending th° n"”ivn! if the main order of steel. Work on the ••hutment > in hand, hut has been delaved by the seas. Damage to the sand pit at the Waiau river has again beCn sustained from the two floods during the month. The number of hands employed is still 30.—Times.