Month’s Activities In Whangarei Harbour
During the past month, a new launch jetty was built in the Town Wharf basin, explained Mr W. M. Fraser, Whangarei Harbour Board engineer. .at the board’s monthly meeting yesterday. Four launch mooring piles had boon driven and two fender piles had been fixed at the Victoria Quay concrete landing, continued Mr Fraser. The goods-shed doors had been overhauled, the pile driver winch repaired, the gas cylinders changed on the flash lights, and a set of piles had been pulled and redriven for a suction dredge pipe line.
Relief Work
Relief work carried out included grubbing gorse and blackberry on the Bluff at Port Whangarei. formation of 11 chains of road at Kaituna, clearing Hooy's reclamation of rushes gnd blackberry, cleaning the drain at the Morningside reclamation and building a stopbank on Hihiaua reclamation. Six square chains had been handled by the suction dredge. 7500 cubic yards of mud being excavated at a cost of 8d per yard.
The channel and bank in Doctor's Creek had been extended for 110 feet, the quantity of mud and shingle removed being HOO cubic yards at a cost of lid per yard.
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Northern Advocate, 21 April 1939, Page 2
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