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steamers trading with Europe, Canada and America which employ

vessels of heavy tonnage and deep draught. Many of these have

to lie at a considerable distance from the business centre of

the City, and complaints have been made in recent years by the Agents of some of the largest vessels frequenting the Port that they are forced out into distant and inconvenient parts of the

harbour. Suggestions have even been made that to meet the

demand for berths for deep draught vessels, the dredging of some

of the more remote portions of the anchorage should be resorted

to.

3.

To remedy this unsatisfactory condition and to

avoid recourse to dredging, I have to recommend (a) that the

Government exercise the power conferred by Section 3 of Table

O(a) to require the removal of all the 48 private moorings at

present laid in Victoria Harbour; (b) that it acquire by pur-

chase 39 of these buoys which have been valued by a Committee

consisting of the Acting Harbour Master, the Government Marine

Surveyor and three local experts appointed by me to investigate

the matter; (c) that it re-arrange and where necessary relay

these moorings in accordance with the scheme illustrated on the

accompanying charts; and (d) that the owners of the remaining

three moorings which are useless for the purpose of the Govern–

ment be required to remove them. They can dispose of them as

they may think fit. If they have vessels that require moorings

their vessels can be accommodated et Government moorings.

I may

mention that this action has already been taken in respect of

one of these moorings whose owners have now no ships to moor.

It is proposed to classify the moorings as

follows:-

A class.

B

C

8 berths for vessels 600 feet in length.

12 berths for vessels 450 feet in length.

20 berths for vessels 300 feet in length.

and to distribute these moorings with due regard to the depth

of