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Appendices to Thirty-seventh Annual Report 



APPENDIX IV. 



HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES. 

 Report by Mr. R. Gordon Nicol, M.Inst.C.E. 



I have the honour to submit, for the information of the Board, the 

 following report on the Harbour Improvement Schemes which are being 

 carried out under the supervision of the Board, and were in progress for 

 the year ended 31st December 1918. 



The following table gives a list of these harbours, along with the 

 estimated cost of the schemes and the assistance in grants and loans that 

 is to be provided from the funds at the disposal of the Development Com- 

 missioners and the Board. 





Estimated 



Assistance to be Provided. 



Name of Harbour. 



Cost 









of 



Scheme. 



Free 

 Grants. 



Loans. 



Total. 



Eyemouth .... 

 Fraserburgh .... 

 Gardenstown .... 



Macdutf 



Banff 



Whitehills .... 



Cullen 



Portknockie .... 

 Findochty .... 



Buckie 



Lossiemouth .... 



Nairn 



Wick 



£4,200 

 40,000 

 9,500 

 37,800 

 8,000 

 3,000 

 7,160 

 8,000 

 6,700 

 57,750 

 15,034 

 18,000 

 31,260 



£1,200 



20,000 

 4,000 



19,500 

 5,750 

 2,250 

 4,000 

 3,200 

 2,000 



18,000 

 3,000 

 7,000 



£2,500 

 20,000 

 4,000 

 17,500 



2,300 

 2,800 

 1,500 

 39,750 

 10,000 



31,260 



£3,700 

 40,000 

 8,000 

 37,000 

 5,750 

 2,250 

 6,300 

 6,000 

 3,500 

 57,750 

 13,000 

 7,000 

 31,260 



Total 



£246,404 



£89,900 



£131,610 



£221,510 



Eyemouth Harbour. — This Improvement Scheme for the deepening of 

 the entrance channel to the harbour by the removal of a reef of rock is 

 still in abeyance. Operations were suspended by the contractors in 

 August 1916, on account of the war, and have not yet been resumed. 



Fraserburgh Harbour. — This Improvement Scheme is still suspended. 

 The formation of the roadway of Faithlie Jetty has been finished and some 

 minor repairs to the Sea Works have been executed. 



Regarding their recent application to the Development Commissioners 

 for further financial assistance, it is expected that the Harbour Commis- 

 sioners will shortly be in a position to submit definite proposals for the 

 completion of the Harbour Improvement Scheme. 



Gardenstown Harbour. — Work on this Improvement Scheme, which is 

 for an extension of the East Pier and the formation of a new harbour 

 basin, is still suspended on account of the war. 



Macduff Harbour. — The progress of this Improvement Scheme has been 

 delayed on account of the scarcity of labour. Notwithstanding this, 

 10,206 cubic yards of excavation, including 8290 cubic yards of solid rock, 

 have been removed from the site of the new harbour basin, the latter by 



