WHARF APPROACH AT BAYSWATER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 16

WHARF APPROACH AT BAYSWATER

LAYOUT APPROVED HARBOUR BOARD MEETS THE plan of the layout submitted by the Devonport Ferry Company Limited for the Bayswater Wharf approach, was approved by the Auckland Harbour Board yesterday afternoon. The plans are prepared for a 24ft. wide road and turntables, 180 ft. long and 60ft. wide, on the new reclamation, and connecting with the borough’s concrete roadway. The board is to supply and lay the necessary kerbs and metal the footpath, which could be tarded and sanded late, the estimated cost to be £240. OTHER DECISIONS The request of the Devonport Yacht Club for two slipway sites at Devonport instead, of the boatshed and slipway sites was granted. On the recommendation of the harbourmaster and the engineer, it was agreed to replace the y existing fixed white light on Orakei Wharf with the one recently in use at the Western Breakwater. The Works Committee is to consider the recommendation of the engineer that the dolphins at Islington and St. Mary’s Bay be abolished, and that a suitable compass-adjusting dolphin for vessels up to 3,000 tons be erected off Judge’s Bay. There has been a decrease of £358 in cash receipts for June this year for the W T aitemata Harbour. The total receipts were £29,887. Compared with the nine months figures for a corresponding period last year there has been an increase of £10,363. For the Manukau Harbour there has been an increase of £2B for the month, compared’ with June, 1926, and aji increase of £20,554 for the nine months period. The arrivals and departures in port in June were;

There has been a decrease of four vessels in the arrivals for the month of June at Onehunga, and a decrease of five in the departures. The Manukau bar was workable both ways each day of the month. Vessels carrying explosives only for discharge at Auckland are to be allowed one and a-half rates of pilotage and port charges in future.

ARRIVALS Gross Tons. Net Tons. "VV arships 4,765 4,765 Oversea 182,465 117,248 Intercolonial .. . . 37,798 22,847 Coastal 101,204 41,340 326,232 186,200 Compared with the corresponding period for last yea r, the large merchant shipping shows a decrease of two vessels of 16,309 gross tons, and 20,048 net tons. DEPARTURES Gross Tons. \\ arships 4,765 Oversea Intercoloni al .... 43,858 Coastal 102,123 53,949 332,776 199,460