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expenditure of public moneys usually payable from loans is some- 
what limiting the extent of harbour improvement works along 
the coast, nevertheless some important works are in progress. 
Commencing in the north— : 
On the Tweed River important river improvement works are in 
progress, and are already showing very satisfactory results. Nearly 
two miles of stone training walls have been constructed, chiefly 
along the concave bank of the river; parallel with the walls, a 
sand pump dredge is at work cutting a channel and depositing 
the silt behind, thus in one operation dredging a channel and 
reclaiming land. About two miles of good direct channel, with 
a depth of from twelve to sixteen feet of water is now available, 
where formerly there only existed a very tortuous channel, carry- 
ing but as many inches of water. 
On the Richmond River, the scheme outlined by Sir John 
Coode is being carried out and is making fair progress. On the 
north side a breakwater has already been run out for a distance 
of one thousand six hundred and fifty feet, leaving about nine 
hundred feet still to be completed to reach the limit proposed by 
Sir John Coode to which the breakwater should be extended in 
the first instance. On the south side, the southern training wall 
has been extended about three thousand three hundred and fifty 
feet, and now reaches the point where the southern breakwater 
proper may be said to commence ; this will have to be extended 
three thousand two hundred feet to reach the end of the first 
section of Sir John Coode’s proposal. This work cannot be 
carried on very expeditiously, seeing that all the stone has to 
be loaded into punts and brought down the river a distance of 
eighteen miles. Fair progress is, however, being made, and as 
more appliances shortly to be available are brought into use, the 
work will no doubt advance in a satisfactory manner. Already 
the works so far complete have a marked influence for good 
in maintaining a deeper and straighter entrance to the river, 
which has hitherto been the dread of all masters trading to the 
Richmond. 
