. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . me could be numl pedients were tried winch mighl be menl In 1881 nit I with a mighty chai ol dynamite, but withsl appeared to disci >urage further attempts oi the l « Some 15 yen i) I reland s eroder, an appai on 11 of the archimedian screw, was given .1 trial, bul witho South or Innes Breakwati ii The South breakwater was started by the late Mr. limes in 1884, but Idied in 1887 and the. works were carried on by Mr. Crofts until Mr. Methappointment in 1888. The South pier was extended but not quite completed by Mr. Methven,who le
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . me could be numl pedients were tried winch mighl be menl In 1881 nit I with a mighty chai ol dynamite, but withsl appeared to disci >urage further attempts oi the l « Some 15 yen i) I reland s eroder, an appai on 11 of the archimedian screw, was given .1 trial, bul witho South or Innes Breakwati ii The South breakwater was started by the late Mr. limes in 1884, but Idied in 1887 and the. works were carried on by Mr. Crofts until Mr. Methappointment in 1888. The South pier was extended but not quite completed by Mr. Methven,who left in 1895, when he was succeeded by Mr. Crofts who brought this workto completion. The total length of this pier, from end to end, is somewhatover 2,600 feet, and it was finally completed in 1903 at a total cost of nearly£300,000. North Pier This was part of Milnes scheme originally, and was carried on by himfor a distance of roughly 450 feet, but this was in 1857. Innes came on thescene in 1881 and, altering this scheme somewhat, carried on the work for. Armadale Castle, 12,973 tons, at Pauls Wharf 34 about a further 1,850 feet before he died in 1887, thus it remained untilMr. Methven, who arrived the following year, re-commenced this work in1891 and carried it forward a further 1,600 feet or thereabouts, andcompleted it in 1894. No further extension took place here until Sir CharlesHartley and Sir John Wolfe Barry, being consulted in the matter, recommendedthat this pier be carried over from that point in a curve towards the Southpier, thus reducing the width at the entrance from 800 to 600 feet ; this wascarried out by Mr. Crofts, who succeeded Mr. Methven in 1895, the additionbeing completed in 1904. The total length of this pier, from end to end, isabout 4,150 feet, and the cost £177,500. The channel between the Bluff wharfage and the repairing quay on thePoint side, immediately inside the piers, attains a breadth of 1,100 feet. Bluff Lighthouse and Signal Stati
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