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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 66

The Auckland Harbour Board’s scheme for the improvement of the wharves and shipping facilities was subjected to a close and detailed criticism the other day by Mr J. J. Qraig, who sought to prove the scheme an unworkable one. The criticism was in turn investigated by the executive officers of the BoaixJ. who, in an interview with a “Herald” reporter, refuted the arguments adduced by Mr Craig. If the width of the wharves was reduced, they say, it would still be impossible to get more wharves into the available frontage, and it would be far bettor to have a sufficiency of sheds on the wharves than to have only one shed for two ships. The raising of the flooring of wharves to the height of drays is the modem method adopted at all the latest constructed docks. The bar,so should have no place in a cargo shod amongst such susceptible cargo as fruit, tea, flour and personal effects. The Board’s proposal is to abandon once and for all the patchwork system of development, and to complete a scheme suitable for a great emporium. It desires to surpass Wellington, and has obtained expert advice from shipmasters, wharfingers, stevedores and carriers as to the best means of effecting this purpose.