"Observations of the Harbour of Auckland"
by William Powditch (1865)
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adopted this plan that quay would have been as sheltered as Gore Street Jetty and would have formed the road round Point Britomart recommended by the present Engineer. A facing of timber and fillings from the tunnel of Custom Street, would have made this at as cheap a cost as the jetty, and which latter when the building sections are to be occupied must be removed. The Superintendent could have obtained leave from the City Board to cut through the tunnel, and perhaps the City would have given aid.
Mr. W. Brown recommends also a pier from Soldier's Point and another from Smale's Point; now Smale's Point was under formation by Capt. Daidy, and as the debris will show was converging to the point for the centre opening marked by Rafferty, Simpson, Utting, Rattray. Question to Capt. Daidy, (report 1853): How would you propose to give protection to coasters and cargo boats? Answer: By a wharf north of Customs Street; meaning evidently crossing the Bay near the Breakwater, commenced by the Harbour Board.
Mr. Utting's most sensible plan was not to impede the ebb tide, but to adopt the principle recommended by other Engineers, that of a curve from Point Britomart to the 3 fm. marked by Rafferty, which would form 2 docks, as large each of them as most in England; Rafferty's plan for accommodating his works to the former break, left too much hollow on the outside which would have all silted in and been useless.
On Mr. Simpson's plan the opening came to the same place for entrance, but was also carried round Point Britomart nearly at low water to take in the proposed railway.
Mr. Utting proposed a curve from point Britomart between Simpson's and Rafferty's taking no account of Rail Works. Either of these plans would have allowed the full action of ebb to act on the face of the dock, and also not prevent the scouring action to any other works in Machanic's Bay, hereafter.
Mr. Utting recommended the east and west Break-water from low-water Point Britomart to Wharf. The Wharf end, say 400 feet, face for Quay on both sides; opening 60 feet, centre 500 feet, rough pitch, not faced, opening 60 feet, and from point Britomart about 400 feet to be faced as much as would be required, after the proposed reclamation for road from Customs to point Britomart Railway, was made according to Engineer's report. Now when it was proposed to run the road to Britomart point, it is evident all that face would, as Mr. Brown recommended, make the Quay and be better sheltered than Gore street jetty, and being 600 feet long, would be equal to both sides of that jetty.
The Committee then only differed in this last item, which they thought would be better provided as the road proceeded; and they recommended Freeman's Bay for the immediate outlay of that cost, and that as the break across would cost less than even further projections of point Britomart, it would also obrtain the desired shelter more perfectly, and the whole of Customs street would be available, and more than an equivalent for the jetty.
The writer has been engaged in discharging and loading in the open Sea, in Roadsteads, in Harbours, in Rivers, in tidal Basins, in
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