HARBOR BOARD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17174, 3 February 1930, Page 2

HARBOR BOARD

MONTHLY MEETING The Gisborne Harbor Board held its monthly meeting to-day, there being Meuent Messrs. J- Tombleson, ch-ais man; A. H. Wallis, J. B. Broadhural* T Corson fl. -J. F. Tombleson, W. D. l/'uce T.'Todd, A. J. Nicol, A. Wade, C* H.' Williams, A. C Steele, T. Quirk, U Smith. aoi Dr. J- C Colling ... ... The Borough Council intimated that Mwas agreeable to the Harbor Board tectiilg the- sjwsk ywd at the Kajti the site designated: w, the board's request, the encroachment on the, borough road being at the pleasure of the council. _ In connection with the stockyard, Mr. ©i H. Williams mentioned that the de- ' sign had first been plotted on an old plan, which had proved to be lnaocn- - rata and this had delayed the work; ot erecting the yards. The design had ■had■■'to t>e recast, in some particulars, 1 IM its niain ideas had been retained, and he thought that the facilities would prove satisfactory. , J The hoatd recoiled it* thanks tfr the Borough Council. A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ENGINEER SITUATION '■ A comprehensive report was Submitted by the resident engineer, Mr. t. ; t Marshall Smith, covering the general advance of the programme with which he was entrusted. Mr Smiths- » f «: ' wees to.the dredging of the ship «hanmT and the progress made> with. ™ e -*,ion to the Kaiti basin Ilar interest, and aroused ainohff members or the xt of the engineers renrered the period jfrom o, February- 5> Waa as REDGINGk the* p*eiiminary channel early in the period and dtaughi. hate h«?tt woi*C© the middle of Dcceman immediala result ia a da&fcuv of the freight 1 cargo, and fully justiof the board m cm %hig< » I recommended ng of the training wall, n decided to continue entrance whenever posiden the navigable chaureduce the risk of ,bad ly affecting the entrance, irea of deep water at the ess will be the risk oi distwbrag the sand na shoaling in the chanjdging was. not possible I ftojrk Btt : ,be«» cMt&d ty of the slipway. The it. the slip, haa been sogr& dredge is engaged out of the slipway ity carriage and gear nave 1 and the slipway is rhe dredging crews were innal holidays at Christear, ha* apart from this me on steadily, iter that has just crop : tjoestknj of providing a between the bottle-neck basin.. This; Ja'.,th> porcontinually subject to e gap remained in the There ;b Bft., of watert«a:/'safe navigation of ito the basin makes it a, depth, to be increased, to Btoi> dredging at the iotk. could be suspended Iredglng below the shpal dredging /if this nick long, fmt the changing would! take* two or thre* iderable interruption to {ing wonld be occasioneo bwever, it could be done ?e hs4 tffl ffiKfiE off, ana ances I would advise ii 1 of finishing off of dek; has been done. Sine? 00 cubic yards of stone id in the .wall, the tote*. 2600 yardk Whetiew* reached low water level, las grouted up the open--3 beams. This has effec he flow of water.through and a progressive iiuiking place as each ba,? acting as I expected and i difficulty in the final rail. The work is necesdependent on the supply "similar if .rtah> lext two or three months, be rendered reasonably she coming winter, report fairly good pjroruude with this work f dose sheet-piling has in, of which iSGft. have ice December 16. Driw acceding at the rate of week, and h of course te supply of stone. Over dig of stops are now in 11, 900 yards, having been ce December 16. The ly, for the week ending as 563 yards. Progress te would enable the rcs-' sheeting being' driven i. This, of course, is de i !« weather during that' ther work has been done section of the wall, but i i.as been repeatedly > urgwith this work, and has te an immediate start. KAITI BASIN. .. ; .. f the foundations for No. are. complete, and the main posts of the strucid. Ait the timber is en protected metal for the has arrived. The wurk id rapidly. The first set was sufficiently far admt in use early in the now be completed as the a material is Ott hand, ving outfit being at last he third wharf section, over on hire to the conbeginningr of January, ress lias been made with - doting the month, and f the rear row of piles e. Rapid progress should has been done on the contract; and another tee the work practically e bridge will then be Joying of the aleepe;i;Si : ,\c^"toe'sleepers » te work will be pushed wssible. The earth fillb.inkmetit ia proceeding i-thirds of the quantity . Most of the remoiiiing the Mne 'of No. 4 lemolition is sufficiently at'there' will .be no detemblition of tfiS *_ shed, gang employed; it was !mplpy : ; '.iiaof«''iiite - during <> bat If have now irig, so as to get the job on as possible. RAL WORK. rious changes that have in the site and in the used it has not been i the cattle yards comed. It'' is now - intended

tcj use the 10' s 8 stringers from No. 4 sbjsd, aa. posts. ' Some of these are now &yaU»bi* and the remainder" wUI be by tß,ft end. of' tha week. The construction of (he .sMds will now be pushed on ragidly a»d they should b© ready for use in fcwch QXf thi-ee weeks. I "'Eqna&s have beeft proceeded with Oik the old western groyne, ant! the worst portion has now been completed and a considerable improvement is evident as regards the leakage of sand. The effect of the work will be watched .and tea advisability of continuing the patching over a further section will then ;bn- considered^ i dredger Korua and tug Pelican ate due for survey at the end of February. "General maintenance work has oeen carried out wherever required, sheds, roadways, and the board's property generally maintained in good order. Floating plant has been attended to and shifted and moored as required and various detail work performed." WORK .COMMITTEE'S REPORT Further information on some,matters Sdealt with, briefly in the engineer's report was afforded by the works committee's report, the text of which was as fellows I The engineer requested instruction?, regarding disposal of timber and iron from, No. 4 shed, which ia being dfcmolished; and the committee authorised him H® sell such, material as is not required ,fen,the! board's purposes, at prices ac cording to his discretion. "With the view to expediting construction ot the stockyard, and having in mind the number of the unemployed at; the present time, the committee authorised the engineer to engage four additional men on the demolition ot jNo. 4- shed>. so as to hasten obtaining timber to be used in construction of the stockyard. , "To assist Mr. Butler regarding the 'Cohvevance ef < stone from Tuamotu j island", the committee authorised the 'engineer.to arrange to have the boards punts caulfted at the earliest oppor tunity, at the board's expense. ; "The engineer submitted a quotation, .obtained from Messrs. Poole and Steel ifor a supply of spare bucket links and brushes required! for the Korua. These will cost £465, and the committee recommends that the be 'authorised to order them." I Soine discussion took place on the • point of the iboard's responsibility for the condition of the pontoons loaned to Mr. Butler for the transport of stone from Tuamotu Island for the sea wal contiact. Dr. Gollins tab«d a. motion to the flffaie that the contractor be called ot to put the pontoons in order,, and that, failing his. compliance with this request, the board undertake the work at the contractor's expense. This motion was seconded by Mr. A. Wade, and provoked a further discussion, which was treated, like the earlier conversations, as "in committee." It was made evident that the entire personnel of the board was anxious to assist the contractor to complete Ins work, and Mi. €. H. Williams gained iiohie support for his amendment to Dr. Collins' motion. The amendment was to the effect that the board undertake to bear a proportion of the cost, to be detennined after the completion of the repairs. This proposal, was eventually adopted on the casting vote of the chairman, the voting on the question being even. A> a result of this- decision, the clause of the report, ralating to tho repair of thf paints- at the board's expense was de leted, and the report, with Mr. Wil iliamsf proposal incorporated, was adopt ed. .