NAPIER’S NEW PORT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10811, 29 January 1921, Page 2

NAPIER’S NEW PORT

INNER HARBOUR SCHEME. CEREMONY OB’ DRIVING FIRST PILE. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, Januarv 28. Tile first pile of the inner iiarbour designed by Mr .George Nelson, M. 1.C.E., was driven’ this afternoon by Mr W. j. McGrath, president of the Inner Harbour League. In the absence, through illness, of Mr Nelson, details of the new port were given by Mr A. E. Jull, chairman of the Harbour Board, who explained that provision vv.ould first be made for erecting concrete quays in place of the present wooden ones so as to provide berths for vessels drawing IS feet. The progress of the scheme would depend mainly on prices of materials and had these been more satisfactory they would not have hesitated on account of the increased cost of labour as compared with pre-war days. A smoke concert held in the evening was attended, among many others, by the Hon. W. Nosworthy, Minister for Agriculture, Messrs H. M. Campbell, J. Vigor Brown, A. McNicol, and Colonel Mitchell, M.P.’s. The Minister congratulated the district on the inauguration of the harbour scheme to which sanction ✓ had been given by Apt of Parliament, He affirmed that the Government in face of manifest, difficulties was doing, and would do all in its power to settle soldiers on the land, and generally endeavour to act for the benefit of the Dominion as a whole. Presentations were made on behalf .of the district to Mr William Nelson, Mr George Nelson (who is his son), and to Mr A. E. Jull, chairman of the liarbour Board.