Work Going Well

On Vila Wharf

Work on Vila’s new wharf is going well and the wharf should be ready by about April next year.

Operations were watched recently by two VIPs from the companies carrying out the job, Mr. J. R. Tay lor, partner of Wilton and Bell, Dob bie and Partners, of Sydney, consult ing engineers to the joint administra tion for the wharf development pro ject, and Mr. J. W. Woods, director of G. Dew and Co. Ltd., of Oldham, Lancashire, the contractors. Mr. Tay lor later told PIM that he was very

pleased with the quality of the work being carried out. At the present rate of progress, he said, there should be little difficulty in meeting next year’s completion date.

The contractors have already shifted the 70,000 cu. yds of spoil originally estimated for excavation and addi tional excavation is now being carried out, on the government’s instructions, to provide a by-pass road behind the wharf site. This by-pass road was not originally envisaged as part of the wharf scheme, but the condominium government decided to take advantage of the presence of the contractors to have the work carried out at the same time as the wharf development. The extra dig will also yield large quanti ties of filling material required for the reclamation of a large area along the Vila waterfront.

It is expected that the total final quantity of excavation now to be car ried out will amount to about 140,000 cu. yds and PIM incorrectly stated in June (p. 101) that the esti mate for the original excavation was “way out”.