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Appendices to Thirty-third Annual Heport 



The first iristalmeiit of the grant and loan promised by the Treasury 

 has been paid from the Development Fund, and amounts to £1600. It is 

 expected that the work will be completed during 1915. 



Portknockie Harbour. 



This Improvement Scheme is to provide wintering accommodation for 

 steam drifters by enlarging and deepening the outer basin of the harbour. 

 It consists of a concrete jetty running inwards from the point of the 

 South Pier for a length of 150 feet to enclose the outer basin ; the ex- 

 cavation of the rock in this basin to provide a depth of 3 feet below low 

 water of ordinary spring tides •; the extension northwards of the South 

 Pier for a length of 37 feet to narrow the harbour entrance ; and the 

 filling up of the creek called the Cross Cave with the rock excavation 

 from the harbour. 



The estimated cost of the scheme is £8000, towards which a free grant 

 of £3200 and an interest bearing loan of £2800 are to be provided from 

 the Development Fund, the balance of expenditure to be met by the 

 Harbour Authority. 



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

 adequacy of the scheme is at present under the consideration of the 

 Development Commissioners and the Board. 



Findochty Harbour. 



This Improvement Scheme is for the enlargement of the harbour to 

 provide additional accommodation for herring drifters. It consists of an 

 inner jetty projecting from the shore towards the harbour entrance, the 

 removal of the rocks inside the entrance to form a spending beach for the 

 waves, the enlargement and deepening of the harbour basin, and the 

 formation of pitched slopes at the south and west sides of the basin. 



The estimated cost of the scheme is £6700, towards which a free grant 

 of £1500 and an interest bearing loan of £1500 are to be provided from 

 the Development Fund, and a free grant of £500 from the Fishery Board, 

 the balance of the cost to be borne by the Harbour Authority. 



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



Buckie Harbour. 



This Improvement Scheme is to provide a winterin.g harbour for 

 herring drifters, and is an extension of another scheme which has been 

 in progress for about four and a half years for the enlargement of the 

 harbour. 



The pier and jetty work of both schemes have been carried out simul- 

 taneously, and, with the exception of the facing of the rock underneath the 

 pier walls, they are j)iiictically completed. The chief works that still 

 require to be done are the deepening of the new harbour basii?s, the repair 

 and deepening of the existing harbour, the construction of the quay walls 

 surrounding the wintering basin, the construction of the slipway and 

 repairing berths, and the reclamation and embanking of the foreshore at 

 the west side of the harbour by material excavated from the harbour 

 basins. Operations for the repair and deepening of the existing inner 

 harbour have been commenced by the erection of a cofferdam of concrete 

 blocks across the entrance to this harbour, and most of the enclosed water 

 has been pumped out. 



The estimated cost of the two schemes is £163,895, and the expenditure 

 amounts to £104,801, 7s. lid. The estimated cost of the second scheme is 



