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[Page 14]
About half way along the jetty the water shallows rapidly, and carries only about ten feet at the steps seen in the photograph.
Besides the sheds on the pier there are two sets of tram rails leading on to the Government reserve at the pier head. This reserve is of about seven acres, and there is an additional area of about fifteen acres reserved to the Nord Deutscher Lloyd. The seven acres Government Reserve is believed to be intended for coal storage. A little further round the Bay, to the northward, are four allotments about 12½ acres, understood to be reserved as sites for Government docks and workshops. This land carried deep water up to within ten to fifteen yards from the shore. Soundings of 2½ fathoms have been obtained at twenty feet from high water mark. It is stated that New South Wales Southern coal to the extent of 1000 tons is stored by Hansheim Hernsheim and Company on the east coast of Matupi Island, at the mouth of Blanche Bay, and that from 1000 to 2000 tons is stored by the N. D. L. at the jetty site aforesaid at the head of the Bay. It is also stated that a wireless station is to be erected on the west shore of Blanche Bay, to communicate with Yap.