The Governor has the honour to lay before the Legislative Council the Report of the Breakwater and Jetty Commission, appointed in conformity with the Address passed by the ...
Article : 783 wordsYour Committee, having been instructed to extend their enquiry to the constitution and operation of the Destitute Board—to the propriety of amalgamating that Board with the ...
Article : 1,593 wordsFair—The Wakened principle ruled, that land without labour was valueless; and hence that the price paid for it should go to bring labour to it. ...
Article : 1,678 wordsINNER PORTION OF WILLUNGA JETTY.—NO. 11/4 in. bolts (either strap bolts or other bolts), where they arc specified. The cross bra es are undersized in most cases; many of the piles are split from two to six feet ...
Article : 557 wordsThis structure consists of a wooden platform, supported upon plies, extending 355 feet from the [?]oot of the sandhills. The work was execunted at two differ at periods; the first portion having been erected under the ...
Article : 1,017 wordsI have been here, in my present capacity, four years. I did not know the place previously, I have superintended the erection of the breakwater from its co[?]mencemer.t. The site was selected by Mr. Hays. I ...
Article : 643 wordsThere was no other superin eudence over the work first constructed than the monthly visit of some officer of the Works Department. The second contract was superintended by Mr. F. Dodd, and was also inspected ...
Article : 96 wordsAt this place a stone wharf has been constructed, with an approach formed round the head of the bay Ly building a retaining wad with dry rabble masonry and filing in with earth, a costing of metal being spread over the ...
Article : 451 wordsYAN[?]ALILLA JETTY.—Five of the piles in the original structure were 8 in. to 11 in. in diameter, and several others under 12 in., the specified size—the lower ends would, doubtles, be smaller. The fourth and fifth rows ...
Article : 268 wordsTwo of the Commissioners visited Port Elliot in the Government schooner Yatala; entered the port by the southern passage, sailed out by the eastern channel, and re-entered, as a preliminary step to making a minute ...
Article : 1,016 wordsSECOND VALLEY.—No. 2 middle upright from the wharf is not bolted to its diagonal brace, nor do they join each other by three inches. The top of this upright is not notched to receive the hearer above it. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsA very good and substantial wharf has been costrueted of sawn timber at the Goolwa, on a branch of Lake Alexandria, opposite to Hindenarsh Island. This wharf is at the eastern termination of a tramway, ...
Article : 217 wordsFrom the cocuments placed before the Commission, it appears that a work of a very expensive nature has been designed for this place, with a termination or breakwater on a as wand untried plan, similar to that ...
Article : 651 wordsI have known this port tor font years. I have resided here two years and four mouths; previously to that time I was in the frequent habit of visiting the Port as master of the Yatala. (The breakwater was ...
Article : 507 wordsMr. F. Dodd superintended the construction of this work, on the part of the Government. The Superintendent was not present at the examination of the work by the Commissioners, as the examination was made on a ...
Article : 78 wordsThese works, now in course of erection, consist of a curved embankment with a tramway carried across a flat, occasionally covered with water in the winter season, to the inner end of a substantial Jetty, with an ...
Article : 395 wordsGULCHEN BAY—John Lading, carpenter, Robe, examined—I was employed by the contractor in the construction of the jetty at this place. Did not see the specification of the works, but saw the plan. ...
Article : 491 wordsAt-this place a wooden jetty has been constructed. 378 feet in length, carried out into seven feet water at low tide, the approach to which has [?]een formed by cutting-round a sandhill, and laying down a piank road ...
Article : 776 wordsMr. Hamilton states that the reason of the T head being omitted and a bay of 22 feet left out was, that the former was, after consideration, deemed unnecessary, and that the latter was left out in order to meet ...
Article : 271 wordsMr. Bonney having been obliged to return to Adelaide, His Excellency the Governor nominated Mr. Younghusband as Commissioner, pro fem for the inspection of the Guichen Bay Jetty, 26th February, 1856. ...
Article : 1,719 wordsThe log jetty spoken of by Mr. Hewett was originally proposed tor Willunga; It was objected to by the Colonial Architect, and would have been more expensive than a pile jetty. Mr. Hewett subsequently proposed ...
Article : 190 wordsNo works have, as yet, been commenced at this place, nor has any particular kind of structure keen determined upon; but the Government have been in correspondence. with the inhabitants of the district respecting the ...
Article : 1,025 wordsThese works consist of a jetty caried out into four feet water at low tides, under the shelter of a reef of rocks lying about two cables' length from the shore, and running parallel to it for a distance of about ...
Article : 820 wordsRIVER WHARF.—Lower wall-piece in front is 8 in. by 6 in, instead of 12 in. by 8 in.; one raking brace is 10 in. by 6 in. instead of 10 In. by 8 in.; front joist is 11 in. by 8 in. instead of 12 in. by 10 in.; screw bolts to strap ...
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Advertising : 303 wordsThis work consists of a wharf, built of stone, in connection with a rocky point at the western end of a small bay; attached to the wharf there is a wooden quay for vessels to lie at, having a depth of six feet water at low ...
Article : 825 wordsSir—On 13th. May, 1854, Mr. Hays proposed that the jetty at Port Willunga, then 176 feet long, should be extended 171 feet in order to obtain at its extremity 6 ft. 6 in. of water at low tide. ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 17 May 1856, Page 7
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