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Appendices to Thirty-third Annual Report 



Eyemouth Harbour. 



This scheme is for the improvement of the harbour by widening and 

 deepening the navigation channel where it bends round into the harbour 

 basin. The channel when enlarged will have a width of 150 feet with a 

 depth of 2 feet below low water of ordinary spring tides, the material to 

 be excavated being chiefly rock. 



The scheme was estimated to cost £4200, towards which a free grant of 

 £1200 and an interest bearing loan of £2500 are to be provided from the 

 Development Fund. 



The engineer for the scheme is Mr. A. W. Lewis, Westminster, and at 

 present tenders are being invited for the work. 



St. Andrews Harbour. 



Progress on this Improvement Scheme from the commencement has 

 been very slow, and the work is still under construction. In August the 

 contractors became bankrupt, and since then the Harbour Trustees have 

 carried on the vv^orks departmentally under the superintendence of the 

 former Inspector of Works. The side walls of the new gateway have 

 been completed, and the cofferdam for the eastern half of the gate cill is 

 in course of erection. It was proposed at first to repair and use the old 

 sluice gates in the new gateway, but after removal and further examination 

 this was considered inadvisable, and tenders are now being invited for the 

 supply of new gates. 



The payments made to the Trustees by the Board on account of the 

 scheme amount to £744 12s. 8d., the maximum sum promised being £1500. 



Stonehaven Harbour. 



This scheme is not yet completed, the contractors being presently 

 employed in removing the reinforced concrete cofferdam within which 

 the rock excavation was carried out and the Old North Pier repaired and 

 strengthened. They are also at present employed repairing defective 

 concrete work and laying a new concrete deck on the pier. 



No payments to the Trustees have been made this year from the 

 Development Fund. 



Fra.serburgh Harbour. 



Work on this large scheme was pushed rapidly forward during the 

 early part of the year so that the new harbour basin might be ready for 

 the herring fishing season. This was accomplished, and on 27th July 

 the Faithlie Harbour was opened by Lady Saltoun. 



Payment of the free grant of £20,000 has been made to the Trustees 

 from the Development Fund, and they have obtained a new Provisional 

 Order to enable them to secure the loan of £20,000 to be provided from 

 the Development Fund. 



Unfortimately, during the gales of October, the storm gates, which are 

 used to close the entrance to the new harbour in stormy weather, were 

 seriously damaged, and had to be removed to the Pontoon Dock for 

 examination and repair. 



Gardenstown Harbour. 



Progress on the contract for this scheme is at present arrested on 

 account of defective work, and the matters in dispute between the Trustees 

 and the contractors have been referred to Mr. B. Hall Blythforhis decision, 



