BREAKWATER WHARVES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 234, 10 September 1924, Page 4

BREAKWATER WHARVES.

REPAIRS TO PROCEED.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Napier Harbour Board an animated discussion took place on the condition of the breakwater wharves, the resident engineer stating that they were in such a state a s to risk of something serious happening. , . Mr. J .A. Miller said the thing had now happened which he and Mr. J. T. Blake had fought against some five or six years ago, but no notice was taken of them. For the last two or three years it had not been safe to bring a big boat alongside. Mr. Vigor Brown: “Is there a risk of heavy loads of goods falling through ? Mr. Huntley: Yes. lam frightened that when the board’s locomotives go over the wharves they will fall through. The wharves are not safe. 1 discovered this when 1 first became engineer to the board and informed the chairman (Mr. JulJ), who said that a fev r swinging piles her a anj there would not weaken the wharves. Mr. W A. Chambers: 1 object to these charges being made when our late chairman is absent I Mr. Huntley, warmly. 1 would have made them if he had been hereMr. J. S Orr- Is this tho reason for big ships not coming alongside the breakwater. Mr. J. J. Langridge : If vou come to our next cargo committee meeting, 1 will tell you th© reason. It was decided that the repairs bo attended to immediately. [Mr. Huntley’s full report appeared in yesterday’s “Tribune.”!