✨ Harbour Report
PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.
New Zealand Government Gazette.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
Vol. XXIII.] NEW PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1874. [No. 14.
REPORT ON THE PROPOSED HARBOUR AT
TARANAKI, N.Z.
[Reprinted from the New Zealand Provincial Government Gazette, Tuesday, January 15, 1867.]
Wellington, December 26, 1866.
SIR,—In considering the question on which you have requested us to report to you, namely, the practicability and probable cost of providing Harbour accommodation at New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki, the following desiderata have been kept prominently in view:—
1st. The selection of a site upon which a perfectly safe Harbour possessing the qualities of a Harbour of refuge, and those necessary for the ordinary Provincial trade can be constructed.
2nd. The site so selected to afford such natural advantages as will enable the works to be constructed for a sum not exceeding about Three Hundred or Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds (£300,000 or £350,000).
3rd. The works to be so designed that they can be carried out in parts without materially increasing the cost, while each part shall constitute a useful and integral portion of one great plan, to be carried on as the resources of the Province may permit.
4th. The first section to give a good landing Jetty, at which the ordinary shipping business of the Province (including the discharge and loading of ocean going vessels) can be carried on at high water during fine weather, for a sum not exceeding One Hundred Thousand Pounds (£100,000).
As requested by your Honor, Mr. Balfour visited New Plymouth in May last, for the purpose of collecting data by soundings, and superintending the making of a general survey of the roadstead by the surveyors in the employment of the Government; the results of which survey are shown on the accompanying plan sheet No. 1 (though to prevent confusion the actual soundings are not given, and only contour lines for every fathom are shown), and on the information then and previously obtained, the conclusions put forward in the following report are based:—
(1.) SELECTION OF SITE.
In selecting a site our attention was first directed to that under the lee of the Island of Moturoa, a preliminary exami-
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Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1874, No 14
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🏗️ Report on the Proposed Harbour at Taranaki
🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works26 December 1866
Harbour, New Plymouth, Taranaki, Survey, Cost Estimate
- Mr. Balfour