THE NAPIER HARBOUR
WORK OF RESTORATION PROPOSAL TO BORROW £335.000.' (Per United Press Association.) NAPIER, December 13. Although the town of Napier has been almost completely restored from the effects of the earthquake, up to the present very little progress has been made with the port, which has been worked, as the result of the earthquake damage, with extreme difficulties. In this connection advice was received today that the Loans Board had approved 6f the utilisation of £71,000 unexpended loan moneys for proceeding with the first part of the breakwater construction. Portion of the amount is being set aside for removing silt from the inner harbour until the new facilities at the breakwater are available. The Napier Harboar Board proposes taking a poll of the ratepayers at an early date for authority to expend £335,000 on the erection of a concrete wharf, together with the necessary protection works and up-to-date facilities to accommodate Home-going vessels. The board is now seeking parliamentary sanction for a poll of the ratepayers to be taken with a bare majority on a similar basis to that at New Plymouth, Wanganui and ports.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22136, 14 December 1933, Page 11
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