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Should the scheme meet
will use
your
approval. I trust you your influence with His Excellency the Governor to have it carried out,
and this give greater security to a very industrious part of the population of this colony.
I have,
signed, Bonham W. Bax,
Captain.
Copy
Description of the proposed Breakwater
5th March 1877.
The principal part of the Breakwater to be made in an E.S.E. direction
from Kellet Island towards the East end of Duddell's Bund leaving a passage of
200 feet wide close to the Bund for
boats to
pass.
The Breakwater to be 270 yards
20 feet wide and 5 feet above high water mark and to be made of rough blocks of granite.
The greatest depth of water being
only 9 feet at low water.
On the N.W. side of Kellet Island, the patch of rocks to be joined to the