KOPU WHARF REPAIRS
"IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION" EXPENDITURE OF £SOO NEEDED [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] THAMES, Thursday "The position looks impossible," said the Mayor of Thames, Mr. S. Ensor, when referring to tho Kopu Wharf at a meeting of the Thames Borough Advisory Committee. The engineer had inspected the wharf, Mr. Ensor continued, and he estimated that it would cost something like £SOO to put it in anything like a safe state. The revenue from the wharf was £lB a year, and from that the council had to pay a man £l2 10s a year to attend to tho lights. The position was a serious one lor the council, said the Mayor. It had been decided that the whole question should be considered by the special harbour committee
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23036, 13 May 1938, Page 12
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