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Appendices to Thirty-third Annual Report 



Whitehall Harbour (Stronsay). 



This linprovenient Scheme is to provide additional berthing and 

 landing accommodation for herring drifters, by extensions of the existing 

 piers and by dredging in the approach channel to give a depth of 10 feet 

 at low water of ordinary spring tides. 



When .tenders were invited for the work, it was found that the cost 

 of the scheme would exceed the estimate by the sum of £12,500, avjd 

 in these circumstances nothing further has been done with regard 

 to the extension ot the piers. 



The dredging of the approach channel has been executed by Messrs. 

 C. H. Campbell, Ltd., London, at a cost of £12,170, towards which instal- 

 ments amounting to £4500 have been paid to the Orkney Harbours 

 Commissioners from the Development Fund. 



Lerwick Harbour. 



This Improvement Scheme is to provide additional accommodation 

 for fishing vessels by the construction of a boat harbour alongside Victoria 

 Pier, and new quays and other works in the vicinity of the pier. 



Grood progress has been made in the execution of the work. The 

 extension of Victoria Pier, the retaining wall and reclamation ot ground, 

 and the boat slip have been completed, while the New Pier has been 

 constructed for a length of 309 feet from the shore. 



The estimated cost of the scheme was £17,000, towards which a free 

 grant of £7500 was promised from the Development Fund, and also, if the 

 full amount required is not obtainable elsewhere, a loan not exceeding 

 £10,000, and the contract price is £31,401. Instalments amounting to 

 £5000 have been paid to the Trustees from the Development Fund. 



In September a Memorial was submitted to the Development Com- 

 missioners by the Trustees making application for assistance in the con- 

 struction of a patent slipway at the port, the estimated cost of this facility 

 being about £9000, but nothing has yet been done in the matter. 



R. Gordon Nicol, 



Consulting Engineer. 



Memorandum by Mr. Walter G. Coles, F.S.I. 

 Ullapool Pier. 



The work at this pier, which consisted of an extension of the head of 

 the original pier 102 feet westwards and 46 feet eastwards, along with the 

 construction of a boatslip at the east end of the village, has now been com- 

 pleted, and the Trustees have obtained the necessary certificate from the 

 Sheriff of the County for the opening of the pier to traffic and the exacting 

 of dues. 



Walter G. Coles, 

 Chief Surveyor to the Board of Agriculture 

 for Scotland. 



