NAPIER HARBOUR
SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS. NAPIER, This Day. Substantial progress was made by the Napier Harbour Board yesterday towards the execution of proposals for the development of the port, recently approved by the ratepayers in the poll on the £335,000 loan proposal. Designs for two ferro-concrete wharves to be erected were approved, and it was also decided to speed up the work by reducing the period of construction from 41 years to three years. One wharf will be 800 by 181 feet, equipped with cargo sheds and electric cranes, and the other will be 750 by 81 feet, equipped with cranes. The Board also approved of the arrangement entered into with the Unemployment Board for the latter to pay a subsidy of 12 per cent on the total capital cost of the works (£406,000), on the understanding that 80 per cent of the labour required shall be drawn from the unemployment registers of Hawke’s Bay as at 20th July, the men to be engaged at full award rates of pay. — (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 September 1934, Page 5
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