HARBOUR BOARD WORKS.
■» ] PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENTS. Is his report on the various improvement r schemes put in hand by the Auckland Har- . bour Board, read at yesterday's meeting, - the engineer stated that the Central 8 Wharf had been completed as far as it was possible to go on at the present time. ■, The Railway Department was engaged in % ! laying its railway connections between,the '< j wharf and the lines in Quay Street. 9 Substantial advance had been made with the reclamation work to the east of the D electric power station. The full width of . I the roadway on the eastern side was being j j formed by spoil from the Beach Road exi cavation works. Other spoil was being
Vavuyiuu Tfuino. wiiux ofi/u new UQUiw tipped' where Meesrs. Goldie's timber jetty stood, and some along the eastern side of the electric power station, towards its northern end. Revised proposals for the better subdivision of the reclamation when completed had., been prepared. Over 34,000 cubic yards of material had, so far, been removed from- the Beach Road excavation. The deviation of the railways on Bang's Wharf had been advanced without any interruption of traffic. Additional seats were shortly to be provided at the ferry wharves.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16672, 17 October 1917, Page 8
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