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Glasgow, and the work is being carried out departmen tally, without the 

 aid of a contractor. 



Work was commenced on the excavations in February last, and about 

 one-half of it is finished, while the construction of the concrete jetty is 

 about to be started. The whole of the scheme is expected to be finished 

 this summer. 



Cullen Harbour. 



This Improvement Scheme is to provide additional and better accom- 

 modation for the fishing vessels at the port. It consists in the erection 

 of a new jetty, about 230 feet long, the removal of the existing stone jetty 

 and certain buildings, the construction of a retaining wall and path along 

 the south-east side of the harbour, an alteration of the West Pier Head, 

 securing this pier with sheet pifing, and enlarging and deepening the 

 inner harbour basin to a depth of 8 feet at high water of ordinary spring 

 tides. 



The estimated cost of the scheme was £6037, towards which a free 

 grant of £2300 and an interest bearing loan of £2300 are to be provided 

 from the Development Fund. 



The engineer is Mr. A. W. Lewis, Westminster, and the contractor is 

 Thomas Munro, Wick, the contract price being £7996. 



Operations on the site were commenced in June 1913. The new jetty 

 has been completed for a length of about 170 feet, about one-third of the 

 excavation of the inner basin has been executed, and the construction of 

 the retaining wall is completed for a length of 50 feet. It is expected that 

 the whole of the scheme will be completed this year, but up to the present 

 progress has been very slow. 



Buckie Harbour, 



This Improvement Scheme is for the enlargement of the harbour to 

 provide a boat shelter for herring drifters. It is an extension of a former 

 scheme which has been in progress for the last three and a half years, and 

 is still under construction, to provide additional accommodation for 

 drifters. 



The engineer for both schemes was the late Mr. W. T. Douglass of 

 Westminster, until his lamented decease by drowning in August 1913. 

 The joint-engineers are now Mr. F. Palmer, CLE., and Mr. A. W. Lewis, 

 both of Westminster, and the contractors are Messrs. Charles Brand & 

 Sons, Glasgow. 



Scheme No. 2 consists of a breakwater, about 950 feet long, in continua- 

 tion of the breakwater of scheme No. 1, a jetty, about 330 feet long, 

 forming the division between the two schemes, about 1600 lineal feet of 

 quay walls along the south and east foreshores of the bay, the diversion 

 of the Ruthven Burn eastwards, the deepening of the new harbour basin 

 enclosed by these works partly to a depth of 2 feet and partly to 11 feet 

 at low water of ordinary spring tides, and several minor works. 



The engineer's estimate of the cost of scheme No. 2, at the time of its 

 inception in 1911, was £35,000, towards which a free grant of £8000 and 

 a free loan of £25,000 are to be provided from the Development Fund, 

 and a free grant of £2000 from the funds of the Board. 



The contract price as recently adjusted is £88,154, but this includes 

 the cost of a groyne, embankment, and boat shps, wliich are additional 

 to the scheme. 



The work of construction was commenced in August 1912, and since 



