THE PORT OF AUCKLAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2570, 3 August 1909, Page 4

THE PORT OF AUCKLAND.

AN EXAMPLE TO NEW ZEALAND. MR. T. M. WILFORD'S VIEWS. Some favorable comments upon the facilities of the port of Auckland were made bv Mr. T. M. Wnford. ALP., chairman of the Wellington Harbor Board, who is at present visiting Auckland in the course of a chat with a “N.Z.Herald” representative. Air. Milford spent a day in inspecting the various works and improvements on the waterfront. He expressed the opinion that the sheds erected at the Railway Wharf were a credit to the port, and an example to the rest of New Zealand. He felt certain that all liarbor boards would do well to emulate Auckland with resoect to shed accommodation. Mr. Wnford stated that he was much interested on this, his second visit, in the ferroconcrete structures, though he had not had the opportunity of going below the wharves, as he did at- the beginning of the year. In Wellington the Harbor Board had only adopted ferroconcrete for the Clyde Quay Wharf, and though he did not pretend to be anything more than an observer, he believed that supervision in construction and the closest watch over detail, when constructed, was all that was required to make ferroconcrete wharves satisfactory everywhere. Mr. Wilford did not know whether the rise and fall of the tide in Auckland which was considerable, would cause trouble between high and low water mark.' He certainly hoped not, and also that the Auckland Harbor Board would never •have cause to regret its enterprise and exploitation. “I was struck with the buzz of trafm- and work going on all round the Auckland wharves,” added the chairman of the Wellington Harbor Board, “and 1 would like to suggest that the roadway on the water front would be considerably improved if the whole of it were wood-blocked as in Wellington. There, our Board banded over £4OOO to the City Council as a contribution, and the result is eminently satisfactory, and a decided improvement on the old existing state of things.”