New Wharf for Auckland

Progress, Volume XIV, Issue 3, 1 November 1918, Page 352

New Wharf for Auckland

It is proposed to erect a new wharf at the end of Freeman’s Bay reclamation costing £40,000 to £50,000. A wharf 650 feet by 60 feet would provide accommodation for two colliers or an ordinary-sized tramp steamer and a sailing vessel. It would be necessary for a channel to be dredged, with a width of 700 feet at the outer end, to 600 feet abreast of the wharf, and to the north wall, with a minimum depth of 25 feet.

The office of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, which is situated in the Norwich Union Fire offices, 153 Featherston Street, Wellington, has recently removed from room No. 9 to room No. 11 in the same building. The new room is much more commodious and suitable to the increasing needs of this body. The question of furnishings for the new room was mentioned by the president (Mr. Chas. A. Lawrence) at the annual meeting of the Wellington District Branch held on the 14th inst., when offers were received from individual members to donate a carpet, a settee, two tables and twelve chairs. The generosity of local members, in thus furnishing the Institute’s head office, is highly commendable.