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ESTIMATE OF COST. 



Excavation, 66,035,185 cubic yards, at Is. 6d. £4,952,638 17 6 

 Material used for embanking, 27,348,148 cubic 



yards ; balance, 38,687,037 cubic yards. 



Quay wall, 34,666 lineal yards, at £121 . . £4,200,586 



£9,153,224 17 6 



Fender piling 207,996 



Miscellaneous 638,779 2 6 



Gross total £10,000,000 



Land reclaimed in — 



Swamp . . 333 acres. 



Quay walls .. 588 ., 



From material available 2,398 ,, 



3,319 „ 

 Deduct for quays .. 1,000 ,, 



Net .. 2,319 „ at £5,000 .. £11,595,000 



Surplus £1,595,000 



The gain to the port would be — 



Water space — Harbour 1,002 acres. 



New channel . . . . 562 



Eiver basin . . . . 218 



Swamp do. . . . . 224 



Sandridge . . . . 80 



Wilhamstown . . . . 18 



Gross area of water surface . . 2,104 ,, 



Length of quay wall . . . . 34,666 lineal yards. 



Area quay space 1,000 acres. 



In the above estimate there is a nominal cost of ten 

 millions for the outlay, but it is shown that at a moderate 

 estimate of value for the reclaimed lands, there is an actual 

 surplus of value of over one and a half millions, besides giving 

 a free port for trade for ever. 



In submitting the foregoing, I feel perfectly confident of 

 the cost being highly estimated and the beneficial results 

 under-estimated, and it must be further borne in mind that 

 many things of large cost are included in the above which in 

 practice may be largely reduced or omitted for the present, 

 whilst the advantages and extent of gain has been in every 

 instance largely understated, my first object being to show 

 the vast means of benefit to trade which lies at our disposal, 

 if we do but take the necessary means to realise them, and 

 how lamentably we shall destroy our own prestige and 



