Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1861 – No. 18

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and if so what would be the best form and dimensions; if sheathing of any kind would be requisite; what description of timber among the many with which our forest abounds would best stand in sea water, and what would be the mode of planking and strengthening best adapted to the nature of the seas, and the material of which our beach is composed.

It appears to the Committee of great importance, and necessarily preparatory to undertaking any work of the kind, that careful observations should be made, and a series of experiments tried, in order to accumulate such practical data as alone could enable a qualified engineer to pronounce a decided opinion upon a plan, or render it possible to estimate with any accuracy the cost of executing a work. Some of these experiments might be made in such a manner as, if found successful, to form the commencement of a contemplated improvement, and possibly, by one and the same trial, throw light upon a variety of points which need to be cleared up.

The Committee is well aware that the present circumstances of the Province are not such as to admit of any large outlay, and that in the uncertainty as to our future it would not be prudent to commence improvements of any magnitude. Yet the hope is indulged that after twenty years of trial the turning point has been reached, and that with the anticipated termination of the Native difficulties a better future is before us, and that we are about to enter upon an era of prosperity.

That we should be prepared by a systematic collection of the data on which to found the needed alterations in our roadstead, so that we may commence a course of improvement in this direction, and remove to some extent the prejudice existing against New Plymouth on account of our roadstead, seems but ordinary prudence; and it is with this view that the Committee recommends for the consideration of the Council the advisability of appointing some competent and practical persons to prosecute experiments and enquiries.

That improvements can be effected in a manner which shall be to a great extent self-paying, and which will, at the least, materially diminish the expenses of the present boating establishment there can be but little doubt; it would therefore, in the opinion of this Committee, be a judicious expenditure of Public money to vote a sum for the purposes named in this report.

GEORGE RUTT BURTON,
Chairman of Committee.

PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.

A RETURN of the SALE of CROWN LANDS and of RECEIPTS from the 1st to the 31st August, 1861, inclusive.

No. of Allotment. Contents. Bidding per acre. Price. Purchaser. Cash. Government Scrip. Provincial Scrip. N.Z. Co.'s Land Orders. Naval and Military Land Orders.
17 a. r. p. 80 0 0 Taranaki Block. George Richardson 80 0 0
18 60 0 0 James Hicks Deeks 60 0 0

W. HALSE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Printed by G. W. Woon for the Provincial Government.



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🏗️ Report on Harbour Improvements (continued from previous page)

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
Harbour, Improvements, Committee Report, Evidence Collection, Construction Plans, Breakwater, Jetty, Land Reclamation, Floating Breakwater, Tramway
  • GEORGE RUTT BURTON, Chairman of Committee

🗺️ Return of Sale of Crown Lands

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Crown Lands, Sale, Receipts, Taranaki, George Richardson, James Hicks Deeks
  • George Richardson, Purchaser of Crown Lands
  • James Hicks Deeks, Purchaser of Crown Lands

  • W. HALSE, Commissioner of Crown Lands