PORT AT CHRISTCHURCH

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1930, Page 9

PORT AT CHRISTCHURCH

EXPERT’S REPORT SOUGHT

PROFESSOR HORNELL’S FEE £3OOO

PRELIMINARY INQUIRY POSSIBLE

By Tckcraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Professor P. G. Hornell, Swedish geologist who has investigated Arapuni, has replied to the Port Christchurch League offering to make a complete report on the project for making a harbour in the estuary at Sumner for a fee of between £2500 and £3OOO. Professor Hornell’s letter was in answer to a request of the league after his favourable comment on the scheme when he visited Christchurch last week.

For this fee he undertakes to investigate a harbour as an engineering work, and also sfudy the reaction the construction of a new harbour would have on Christchurch as a transport centre. He would ascertain whether this reaction would benefit the city and the country. For assistance in some aspects of the inquiry he would need'the aid of other experts. He suggests as railway expert M. Carl Semler, attached to the Harbour Board of Stockholm, an.t as harbour expert M. S. Vinberg, director of the harbour of Stockholm. The fee named is far beyond the resources of the Port Christchurch League, but it hopes to be able to induce. Professor Hornell to come here for two days to make his investigations and arrange for a compilation of data, leaving unsettled for the present the question of whether he should go on with the report, which, in any case, would be done at Professor Hornell’s headquarters at Stockholm. For the first part of the work the fee might be obtainable.