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Appendices to Thirty-ninth Annual Report 



rnissioners, sanctioned a loan of £7200 from the Development Fund. 

 Dredging operations were commenced in April with dredging plant hired 

 by the Trustees, and the quantity of sand and gravel removed from the 

 harbour and deposited at sea during the months from April to August 

 amounted to 15,000 tons, when dredging operations were suspended for 

 a time. 



Payments amounting to £3500 by way of loan were made to the 

 Trustees from the Development Fund during the year. 



Fraserburgh Harbour. 



Last year the Harbour Commissioners obtained a Provisional Order 

 to enable them to carry out the scheme of improvement works at the 

 harbour which they had previously adopted. These works are essenti- 

 ally of a protective character, designed to save the existing harbour 

 works from further damage by the sea and to provide quiet water within 

 the harbour area, and they form the completion of the improvement 

 scheme which has already been partially carried out and which included 

 the construction of Faithlie Harbour. The Commissioners also adopted 

 a scheme for the construction of a slipway with side-slipping berths on 

 a site adjacent to Faithlie Harbour. They have applied to the Treasury 

 for financial assistance from the Development Fund to enable them 

 to proceed with these works, and the application is under consideration. 



Gardenstoicn Harbour. 



This improvement scheme, which includes an extension of the East 

 Pier and the construction of a new harbour basin, was suspended in 1916 

 on account of the war, and is still in abeyance. 



Macduff Harbour. 



Work on this improvement scheme is almost completed. During 

 the year 6740 cubic yards of rock and 4557 cubic yards of soft material 

 were removed from the new harbour basin and deposited on the 

 foreshore to the east of the harbour, the rock being excavated by means 

 of pneumatic drilling plant and explosives. The quay wall on the south 

 side of the basin was constructed for a length of 145 feet, and a new 

 concrete facing wall 140 feet long was erected in front of the old stone 

 jetty at the west end of the basin. The formation of the entrance 

 between the existing harbour and the new basin was commenced by 

 cutting through the rock under the jetty and constructing 15 feet of the 

 entrance wall. 



The expenditure on the scheme having exceeded the estimate on 

 account of the enormous rise which has taken place in wages and 

 the C03t of materials, the Town Council have made application for 

 farther financial assistance. 



The application by the Council for financial assistance to carry out 

 a scheme for providing a slipway at the east end of the new basin is 

 under the consideration of the Treasury. 



A payment amounting to £3000 by way of loan was made to»the 

 Council from the Development Fund during the year. 



Banff Harbour. 



Work on this improvement scheme has been suspended during the 

 year owing to lack of funds, and the Trustees have made an application 

 to the Board for a further grant to enable them to complete the scheme. 



No payments were made to the Trustees during the year. 



