PREPARING FOR BIG OCEAN LINERS

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 24

PREPARING FOR BIG OCEAN LINERS

I l"‘ '•‘•im-n*e '•tride* \\hi«h li.i \»• been made of recent years in Hie immune of ocean liners make blu deminds on the n...» ..i. . . .. . J a*i.i ;ix \\««|| io* m<»wth <,f the biir vesuris which t<> .on- i< ...<iiv .»o; ..i »•.. . .1 111 . . , UM polls to whnli 11m \ pl.\. as. | ■'lance. I h«* ma in mol h steamer u<■ » - nul. ,1 .k. n_ n„,| th.. ..." ,? . n T, " "'i', ''.r." " a ’"' 1,11 I"" 1 ' ~r I• ■-I-i• .in llib. of ,1,. berth -Il .11-Ji.t lion..tv wl..f " . 1 7‘* h*' ph<»lo allows the new Queen-st leet wharf. Which is raphlh lepl.iring b'lth the new whart, ami further inshore i< an inter .•olonial steamer with her bows close up to Quay street. In the cetilW'

. which was built before lllWe was :l pier long enongli to ;ice«i ininodate her. with the result that these big work* had !■• be undertaken at om-e hot ain liiigtuml im| Vue: e 1 I, A i*ti 1 have had Io spend large stmts in providing modern wharves, deep waler be* 1 hs. and np to date harbour appliance* generally In Auckland .1 \er\ large -• nun harbour improvement work* •■"ld wooden st ruet tire which formerly ex isi ed. Sonic of lite vv ooden tees ami goods sheds are still in u*e aml <a n be *• cn on tin- right. • >ll the >t t i* one of the ha 1 hour di •• Ige* pv pi 111 1 .|v p " t ' >r 1 be obser\e<l tint huge st<»vl pontoon which is being built to carry a tioton floating cram*, another detail in tile equipment of tin