The New Dock at Port Chalmers.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 12, 1 October 1906, Page 350

The New Dock at Port Chalmers.

This fine dock, excavation^ for which are proceeding, is being constructed by the Otago Dock Trust, a body corporate acting under the provisions of the Harbour Act, 1876. The dock was designed by Mr. Robt. Hay, M.1.C.E., of Dunedin, and the dimensions are • — length on sills, 500 ft ; width at copmg, 90 ft. ; width at bottom, 67 ft. ; width at entrance, 70 ft. ; depth from coping to floor, 29 ft. ; depth of water on sill, 22 ft. The contract is let to Messrs. Luttrell & Scott, of Chnstchurch, for The Dock Trust supplies the cement and pumping plant, separate contract for which has been entered into, making the total cost of the dock £74,000. The time allowed for completing the work is sixteen months. The Trust has borrowing powers up to /ioo.ooo, and it has exercised these powers up to The loan was raised locally at par bearing interest at 5 %.

Patea Meat Preserving Co — A considerable addition has been made to this Company's works m the form of a detached insulated building fitted up -with a Linde refrigerator driven by a suction gas engine, supplied by Niven & Co., of Napier, under a guarantee that the plant will do the work of refrigeration, etc. Mr. Watt is superintending the erection of the machinery for Niven & Co. The freezing this year, instead of being carried out at the butter-grading depot, will now be done on the Company's own premises, and altogether will comprise extracting, canning, tallow rendering and freezing.