OPUNAKE JETTY.

Opunake Times, Volume XIV, Issue 656, 25 January 1901, Page 2

OPUNAKE JETTY.

ijFon some time past the moorings ini lithe bay have been in a very unsatis-g state, as one mishap occurred! ||after another until the whole of them! |jwere lost. Onr local boatmen spent || ||a good deal of time in trying to re-d| pcover them, but without avail, Theis Ipesnlt was that the owners of the s.s.p IjAorere expressed their intention of# I’outting that boat off. Mr E. Maxwell :?• the idea of obtaining tbe’f of Mr Archie McGiven, the A;

y well-known marine diver, to recover.ijl and also, if it could be managed,;| |.;to get him to remove several rock? J iwhioh were fought shy of as it. is generally admitted Ithat Mr McGiven is thoroughlyH lexpert at this work. _ The Wharf|| lOompany not being in a fiuanciali|| to undertake the work, Messrs Jd pM. J. Brennan and J. Stewart under-i'| Itook to canvass the business Ifor the necessary funds. Direct ship-p iping to the port, as a matter of course, iraeans the greatest benefit to |business men, and the list which weg-jj | publish shows that our business nien||| | are alive to the importance of pushing |f | the town and port ahead as every one || those asked, with one exception, || contributed. The work has||j jlbeen carried out under the supervision || |of Mr J. Macfie, who has given ag I fortnight of his ,time and has worked || | hard to ensure success. The result|4 |of the operations has been that Iwhole of the moorings have been || I recovered and made secure, and every || p rock within the mooring area | with gun cotton. On last Sunday the || | Aorere came alongside the jetty and|| % moored without the slightest difficulty. ||| |Mr McGiven, after a thorough|| | survey of the bottom, states that %is nothing whatever now to prevent |35 Ithe Gairloch or the Glenelg I coming alongside the wharf an d|| I working there in perfect safety. I would now be advisable for our busi-® ojness men to put their shoulder to the|| I wheel and see to getting a regular | service to the port. This we know|a |can be effected by them combinings |and seeing that all their freight isg I given to which ever boat will makeJ| I regular calls and land their goods ou|| Ithe jetty. ||