✨ Report on Westport works
THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
Published by Authority.
All Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XX. NELSON, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1871. No. 19.
Superintendent's Office,
Nelson, 11th July, 1871.
THE following Letter and Report are published for general information.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st July, 1871.
SIR,—I have the honor to enclose a copy of Mr. Blackett's Report, called for in compliance with the request contained in your Honor's telegram of 26th May, that that gentleman should be instructed to inspect the protective works at Westport, and give his opinion on others proposed.
Copies of the enclosures to Mr. Blackett's Report are already in your possession.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
W. GISBORNE.
His Honor the Superintendent, Nelson.
Public Works Office,
Wellington, 28th June, 1871.
SIR,—In accordance with instructions received in telegram of May 27th, I inspected, on my return from the Grey, the River Buller and sea-beach at Westport, and have now the honor to forward Report thereon.
As you have already been informed, the encroachments of the sea on the North Beach, during the last year or two, has rendered necessary the removal of a considerable portion of the town, and the inhabitants are in great anxiety lest further encroachments should destroy a still larger portion of it.
On my arrival at Westport, a deputation of the inhabitants explained to me the danger in which the town was considered to be, and also the various schemes for averting which, and for improving the bar and entrance to the river, had been considered and proposed.
These were as follows, viz:—
1st. To re-open, at a cost of £250, an old channel of the river on the South side, and behind Garden Island, the entrance to which, now partially closed by the action of the river, is about a mile above the town, in order that in floods a portion, say one fourth, of the body of the river, should be carried off by that channel, which, pointing nearly in a straight line to the harbor entrance, would have the effect of straightening
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1871, No 19
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🏗️ Publication of correspondence and report regarding protective works at Westport
🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works11 July 1871
Westport, River Buller, protective works, engineering report, sea encroachment
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary
- W. Gisborne, Colonial Secretary
- Mr. Blackett, Public Works Office