AUCKLAND WHARVES DAMAGED.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 167, 24 July 1907, Page 5

AUCKLAND WHARVES DAMAGED.

, Press Association. Auckland, July 22. The Collector of Customs has been notified by the master of the s.e. Kawau that the beacon on Maori Rock has been dislodged. The gale on Sunday caused extensive damage to portion of the new ferro-concrete railway wharf. The part affected most is the training wall sheathed piles, which extend the whole length of tlwr wharf for the purpose of turning the tide and making • still water inside. About a dozen bays in the middle of the wall have been torn out almost completely, a few isolated plates being visible here and there, with jagged ends of the stoel reinforcements sticking out of the top. A heavy top girder has also gone. In the bays, with the exception of some small p >rtions hanging to the tops of isolated piles, tho steel, bars forming the reiuforcement stretching are bent and stripped of concrete across the intervening space. Passing further out towards the end of the wharf, the wall still stands, though daylight can be seen glimmering between the piles in several places. Coming to the place where work is now progressing, the ravages of the storm are at once more apparent.