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Appendices to Second Annual Report 



APPENDIX E. — No. III. 



HAEBOUE WOEKS. — EEPOET by the Engineers upon the 

 State of the Harbour Works in progress under the 

 Fishery Board for Scotland — Year 1883. 



We have the honour to lay before the Board the following 

 Eeport on the Works of last year : — 



Ness Harbour, in the Island of Leivis. — As mentioned in last year's 

 Eeport, the works at Ness were begun under an experienced 

 inspector of works in the month of February 1883, and they have 

 been vigorously prosecuted since that date, and are now fully more 

 than half finished. Though the unfinished works were severely tried 

 by the exceptionally heavy gales of last winter, no damage was 

 sustained, and should the present season prove favourable, we expect 

 to be able to report their completion in next year's Eeport. 



Findochty Harbour, Banffshire. — The works originally contracted 

 for by Messrs Brand & Son are finished, and the only work now in 

 progress is the short breakwater shown on our original design for 

 the improvement of this harbour. This additional work was con- 

 tracted for by Messrs Brand, and has now been extended to about 

 half of its full length. The new harbour is, we believe, highly 

 appreciated by the fishermen. 



Crovie Landing Slip, Banffshire — The fishing creek at Crovie 

 was inspected, and a design submitted for a landing slip at a cost 

 of about £1000. This design having been approved, tenders were 

 invited for the execution of the work, and the lowest offer, being 

 that of Messrs Morrison & Son, Edinburgh, was accepted. The 

 work has now been begun, and will be prosecuted to completion 

 this season. 



St Monance Harbour, Fifeshire. — The fishermen of St Monance 

 have, unaided by any grant, erected a good harbour at a cost of 

 about £15,000, but the funds at their disposal did not admit of the 

 rock excavations being carried out to the extent now proposed by 

 the fishermen, or of widening the outer entrance channel. The 

 increased size of the boats now engaged in the fisheries, however, 

 rendered it absolutely necessary that the rock should be at least 

 partially excavated and the entrance improved, and these works 

 are now being carried out by a grant in aid from the Board. The 

 works are being executed by day's wages under an inspector, and 

 will be carried as far as the funds at disposal will admit. 



D. & T. STEVENSON, 



Engineers, 



Edinburgh, May 28, 1884. 



