BEAUTIFYING THE NEW RAILWAY APPROACH TO AUCKLAND BY FORMING A PERMANENT LAKE IN HOBSON BAY. The promoters of the scheme suggest that a retaining wall should be built from the bridge opening in the railway embankment near Point Resolution, leaving a tidal basin for pleasure craft on the western side, with a spillway about the centre of the embankment,, behind which the water would be impounded at half tide, thus hiding the unsightly tidal mudflats. —Stag Photographer,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19511, 15 December 1926, Page 15
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77BEAUTIFYING THE NEW RAILWAY APPROACH TO AUCKLAND BY FORMING A PERMANENT LAKE IN HOBSON BAY. The promoters of the scheme suggest that a retaining wall should be built from the bridge opening in the railway embankment near Point Resolution, leaving a tidal basin for pleasure craft on the western side, with a spillway about the centre of the embankment,, behind which the water would be impounded at half tide, thus hiding the unsightly tidal mudflats. —Stag Photographer, New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19511, 15 December 1926, Page 15
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