THE WELLINGTON DOCK PROPOSALS.
[bt telegraph.— association.]
Wellington, Friday. In the report submittal to the Harbout Board, Mr. Ferguson, the engineer, re ported against the idea of making a deck bigger than any in the colonies. He showed that the tendency was to reduce the length of steamers rather than to increase it, and said it would bo absurd to have to pump out a huge dock every time a moderatesized steamer wanted to use it, Mr. Fop guson considered the circumstances of tin colony do lint warrant the constructs of a third large dock at all, though a small dock is, in his opinion, desirable here. If i large dock has to be constructed, lie suggeais it should not be larger than 550 feel by 80 feet, with a depth oi 23 feet, alio thai particulars should be obtained of floating docks, a large number of which are now ie use. The Board instructed him to prepare plans for a dock as above, but providing for an additional hundred feet in length at tome future tirno, also to obtain details of floating ' docks suitable for 3000 ton; steamers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10425, 24 April 1897, Page 4
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