NAPIER HARBOUR
BREAKWATER FAVOURED {PREFERRED TO INNER HARBOUR L [Per Press .•ssociationJ NAPIER., Dec. 21. 8 Messrs Cullen and Keele, two Aus- | tralian engineers who recommended the I ; Napier Harbour Board in 1912 to profl jceed with the construction of the inner I harbour, wore asked to report again, I (following a report by Mr F. W. Furkert, I Chief Government Engineer, who had I recommended the completion of the ■ (breakwater. Messrs Cullen and Keele 3 i now recommended the breakwater harI (bour, which they say will bo more eco- | nomical than the inner harbour, and I more easily entered in heavy weather. | The Australian engineers, in the report I now to hand, state that they recommended the inner harbour previously because they had been misinformed as to the nature of the ocean bottom at the breakwater. They are now convinced that there will be no difficulty in completing that harbour, and lhey practically endorse Mr Furkcrt’s scheme, while combating his argument. j .Messrs Cullen and Keele give the cost | !of a breakwater to accommodate four I ocean liners as £487.236. I The Harbour Board discussed the reI port in committee to-day. The cost of I (annual maintenance is £.10,000 in favour I of the breakwater.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 23 December 1925, Page 14
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