A NEW WHARF
PREPARATIONS FOR JUBILEE DOCK. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 4. With a display of bunting to mark the occasion, the finishing touches were put to-day to the Wellington Harbour Board’s new wharf, to which the jubilee dock will be moored on its arrival from England about March next. General satisfaction was expressed by the board’s officials at the progress of the work on the wharf, which has been completed five months within the time allowed. It comprises an approach jetty 275 feet long and 23. feet wide, and a main pier 489 feel long and 54 feet wide. The sea bod over which the dock will lie has been dredged to a uniform depth of 46 feet The dock itself left the Tyne on its long tow to New Zealand on July 15.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21432, 5 September 1931, Page 18
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137A NEW WHARF Otago Daily Times, Issue 21432, 5 September 1931, Page 18
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