HARBOUR WORKS.
NEW PROPOSALS FOR AUCKLAND. A BIG PROGRAMME. Auckland, Dec. 8. New proposals for the development of the Auckland harbour were submitted to the board to-day bv the engineer, Mr D. Holderness. The complete cost is estimated at £5,500,000, the main items being a wharf over the outer arm of the western breakwater and equipment. £680,000; export wharf and equipment. 6580,000; general cargo wharf west of Princes wharf and equipment, 6550,000; general purposes wharf east of Kings wharf and equipment, £545,000; wharf over eastern breakwater and equipment, .6525.000 ; railway wharf and equipment. 6270, 000; administrative offices, 6250,000; reclamation from Hobson street to Halsey street, £220,000; cool store, 6200,000; reclamation west of western breakwater, £150,000; viaduct to Freeman’s Bay, 690,000.
It is proposed that the construction should be made in stages. The first five years’ programme, involving an expenditure of £875,000, includes a breastwork in front of the proposed site for the new workshops and store in Mechanics’ Bay and a new wharf at Devonport.
'Hie report was referred to the hoard In committee.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 214, 9 December 1925, Page 3
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