IMPROVEMEHTS AT THE PORT.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11620, 7 May 1906, Page 2

IMPROVEMEHTS AT THE PORT.

NELSON ROWING CLUB'S NEW SHED. The Nelson Rowing Club.'s new shed, which has been erected on the foreshore of the harbor, next to the Pilot Station, is now ready for occupation, and for a building of this character is a substantial and ornamental structure. The shed is approached by a substantial platform, with balustrade, and the main door opens into a spacious room 60 feet jby 36 feet, which will be used for the outriggers and skiffs. Ths height of the shed from the floor to tho apex of the roof is 26 feet, and accommodation is provided for sixteen boats. In the roof are rwo of Wade's patent ventilators, and two large gates, each eight fent wide, open on to :i platform above the slip. On the left of the main shed is the pleasure boat shed, with attaplc accommodation for about twenty boats. This room is 60 feet long by twelve in width, and the platform is reahed by a pair of gates ten feet wide. On the opposite side is the dressing shed, 38 feet 6 inches by 12 Feet, neatly fitted with lockers, and i every convenience. At the end of fchis is tlie bath room, nine feet by eight feet, fitted with three large showers, and adjoining is the lavatory. A passage, three feet wide, leads from tho dressing room to the platform above the slip. This platform is 60 feet in width, and slopes gradually into the sea, converging at a distance of 40 feet into a tongue 12 i feet in width. The full length of the slip, which has an easy grade, is one hundred and three feet. The decking of the slip is built of tarred matai, andthe supports are constructed of heavy silver pine and totara, strongly strapped and bolted with angle iron. The piles are anchored by sole plates, secured by railway iron spikes, and altogether the structure is srongly built, and capable of resisting the heaviest seas that are experienced within the harbor. The boat brackets in the main room, it may be mentioned, can be removed at any time, leaving a clear room place of sixty feet by thirty six feet, which will make a capital social h"»U. An ornamental , front with projecting gable enhances " tbo appearance of the outside of the shed, which is a decided improvement to the foreshore. The shed was built by Scott's Estate, the painting executed by Messrs Louisson Bros., and the plnmbing and gasfitting by Mr H. McArtney, and those concerned have faithfully carried oufc their contracts.