A Big Job...

Five years and the expenditure of many thousands of pounds will be required for an undertaking which has now been started by the staff of the Gisborne Harbour Board.

This is the re-piling of Butler's Wall extending from the harbour entrance back towards the "cut".

Plan is to use the present wall as a working bench from which to drive new, massive concrete piles on its seaward side.

Hauling up one of the piles, weighing four tons, from the pontoon to its position on the derrick.

Launch tows pontoon (now repaired after recent plunge to harbour bottom) to operation site, with two piles aboard.

View from seaward side shows derrick, engine house, and piles driven so far. When bugs have been developed out of system, it is thought that three piles a day will be driven.

Close by, dredge continues its daily chore of deepening harbour channel.

Looking back along Butler's Wall to the shore. Braced wooden structure is filled with rubble. Wall is named after contractor who started it.

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 21 : April 5, 1956

A Big Job...