WANGANUI HARBOUR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 May 1922, Page 5

WANGANUI HARBOUR.

SIMPLE IMPROVEMENT METHODS. I (.BX XKLEGKAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.* WANGANUI, May 14. The cry "back to nature" has been adopted with good results by the \Vauganui Harbour Board. A comparatively small sum has been spent on harbour I works during last year, yet, by gently | guiding the natural current of the tides, and stopping the sand arift, a marked improvement has been wrought. \ It was reported at. the annual meet-! ing of the board that the entrance now i I shows the greatest depth of water yet' I recorded—24ft 3in at high water spring' ' tides, and 21ft 3in at high water neaps, j The depth has been increasong month ;by month since the new methods were adopted, and Mr C. A. Bignell, who was re-elected chairman for another term, expressed a confident belief that liners would be berthed at Castlecliffe in the near future. | The depth has been increasing, month nel to the town wharf has also been much improved now, the shallowest portion being 14ft. j