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Appendices to Thirty-fourth Annual Report 



Eyemouth Harbour. 



The work of this Improvement Scheme is for the widening and deepening 

 of the Navigation Channel within the pier head of the harbour. The 

 contractors for the work, which is chiefly rock excavation to provide a 

 depth of 2 feet below low water level, are Messrs. Anthony Fasey & Son, 

 Leytonstone, the contract price being £4782, 17s. 2d. The work was 

 commenced in April, but slow progress has been made with the removal 

 of the rock, the amount excavated being 5580 cubic yards. In accordance 

 with the original contract, the excavated rock was to be deposited on 

 adjacent land, but it was subsequently arranged to dispose of it at sea. 



Payment of the whole of the grant, amounting to .£1200, has been 

 made to the Trustees from the Development Fund. 



St. Andrews Harbour. 



The new gateway and sluicing gates which constitute this Harbour 

 Improvement Scheme were completed in September and are now in use. 

 In February a contract for the construction and erection of the new 

 sluicing gates was placed with Mr. John Smellie, Glasgow, the contract 

 price being £517, 10s. Od. The sluicing operations have been entirely 

 successful in removing the accumulations of silt in the outer harbour basin 

 and entrance channel, which have hitherto limited the usefulness of the 

 harbour and have formed a source of danger to navigation. 



The total cost of the scheme was £2173, 12s. 7d., towards which the 

 Board has made a free grant of £1500. 



Stonehaven Harbour. 



Work on this Harbour Improvement Scheme is practically completed. 

 The rock in the outer harbour basin has been excavated to a depth of 

 6 feet below the level of low water of ordinary spring tides, and the 

 strengthening and repair of the Old North Pier to allow of the increased 

 depth is finished, with the exception of the landward portion of the 

 concrete roadway and certain repairs to the foundation of the pier. 



Fraserburgh Harbour. 



Work is still in progress for the completion of this Harbour Extension 

 Scheme, but the progress is slow. The operations are at present confined 

 to the erection of Walker Quay and the hearting of Faithlie Jetty, but 

 there is still a considerable amount of work to be done in pitching the sea 

 face of the rock embankment in the east bay, and the repair of Burnett 

 Pier, and the storm gates. 



No payments have been made during the year towards the cost of the 

 scheme from the Development Fund. 



Gardenstown Harbour. 



At the commencement of the year the matters in dispute between the 

 Trustees and the contractors were still under arbitration, but in January, 

 the Arbiter, Mr. B. Hall Blyth, issued his Decree Arbitral, whereby the 

 contract was determined, and the contractors were awarded the sum of 

 £2539, lis. 4d., in settlement of all claims, being £2577 less than the 

 sum sued for. As it was impossible to repair the defective concrete work 

 of the new West Pier, it was decided to remove it entirely, and this has in 

 great measure been accomplished. Work on the East Pier Extension was 

 in progress departmentally until late autumn when many interruptions 



