mproving Apia’s Wharf
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Facilities
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Oct. 20
ITORK has recently been com ff menced on extensive im provements to harbour facili es and wharfs at the Apia water de (See photographs, page 37).
This work includes dredging and jclamation operations and the 'ection of new Customs offices.
When the new scheme is in aeration despatch of lighters will 3 speeded up, facilitating the andling of inward and outward irgoes; a special passenger jetty ill be constructed and the exist ig wooden wharf will be repaired id strengthened.
On a large reclaimed area next the present export shed a new mana export shed will be erected.
The total cost of all these im ovements is estimated at £30,000 id the work will probably be com eted early 1952.
The planned building of a deep a harbour for Apia has now been >andoned, as such a development mid probably cost in the neigh •urhood of £l,OOO 000.
Mrs. J. Burton Turner, of Suva, ji, arrived in Adelaide, SA, in jtober to visit her parents.