COLLAPSE OF WHARF
INQUIRY A? AUCKLANp (tfatteit Press AMOoifctlou ) AUCKLAND, Nov. 24. At the inquiry by the Harbour Board into the collapse of the western wharf. Engineer Hamer described the construction of the, mole. He said the stone foundation was set on a sloping bottom, land he did not think the workmen could Siavie been more'careful than They were Hn depositing the stone. As to the possibility of there being a tendency to pressure forwards, he said he had felt perfectly satisfied about it. At one point -of the struct urn since the. collapse there "had been found some ' disintegration, spread over about twenty feet. He thought there had been a greasy back a soft- stuff pocket underneath the hot- | tom which* Jiad tended to slide. I'ossiblv one part of the clay bottom had , slid" on the other, carrying the stone ( with itv ' _
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 25 November 1924, Page 8
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143COLLAPSE OF WHARF Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 25 November 1924, Page 8
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