CHARTING THE COAST
WORK DESCRIBED AS URGENT. By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, June 26. The need for urgency in checking the soundings on the New Zealand coast was emphasised by Mr E. H. Davis at a meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board upon the reading of a communication from the Minister cl Marine (Hon. J. G. Cobbe) to the effec* that the proposed survey w r ould not be made for another two years. The Minister stated that the New Zealand Government had been in communication with the British Government for a considerable time over a resurvey of the New Zealand coast. The position now arrived at was that an Imperial surveying ship would available for New Zealand toward the end of 1936. The British Government would find the greater part of the cost. The urgency of the work was appreciated, and the provision of funds to meet the expenditure would be brought before Parliament.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19836, 27 June 1934, Page 8
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154CHARTING THE COAST Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19836, 27 June 1934, Page 8
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