Thorndon Reclamation Works.

In company with Mr. Morgan, Stationmaster, the writer recently visited the Reclamation at Thorndon, and was surprised at the progress that is being made. The sea wall, now nearing completion, is 3,879 feet in length. When the scheme is completed fully seventy acres will have been reclaimed from the sea. Of this area sixty acres will be used by the Railway Department for the new goods yards, etc. The magnitude of the work of building the sea wall may be gathered from the following facts: The estimated number of cubie yards of concrete necessary to completion amounts to 74,994. To date 72,852 yards have been deposited. The wall is constructed in water varying in depth from 28 feet to 55 feet, the base of the wall varying from nineteen feet to thirty feet, according to depth, tapering to four and a half feet at the top. Approximately 2,350,000 cubic yards of spoil will be required for filling in the area reclaimed, and to date 750,000 cubic yards have been pumped in, roughly one third of the total quantity necessary. If the present rate of progress is maintained the job should be completed in about three years time. Already a considerable area is awash and before long will be dry land. We can now look forward to the time when the new Wellington station and yards will be an accomplished fact.