Repaired
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Suva Wharf Will Be Repaired
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Nov. 19
THINGS —usually heavy trucks— frequently go through the King’s Wharf, the main berth ing-place for overseas ships at Suva. They go through to the ex tent of breaking a heavy, decayed hardwood plank in the decking, re cover and go their way leaving yet another hole.
Shipping men, pointing to cargo handtrucks lurching over the ter raced planks have said that no body has any right to ask wharf workers to push heavy loads over such a surface.
It has now been discovered that for many months the Public Works Department has been trying to squeeze sufficient hardwood out of Australia to put down a completely new top to the wharf, Australia, however, will not come across with the timber, and the Department has now announced that it is about to put together detailed plans for re placing the timber decking with re inforced concrete, plus reinforced concrete supports where necessary.
In the meantime, the Department has toyed with the idea of banning heavy lorries from the wharf, but as this would add to the present state of hopeless congestion in the inadequate wharf sheds, and would delay shipping, it has been decided to let lorries go ahead.