TRAFFIC ON BEACH

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 140, 29 March 1940, Page 5

TRAFFIC ON BEACH

CONTROL BY COUNTY COUNCIL NEW ORDER GAZETTED Relative to the efforts of the Whakatane County Council to secure more control over the beach at Ohope in an endeavour to prevent speeding by motorists, and con sequent danger to bathers and picnickers, the following extract from the latest New Zealand Gazette is of particular interest. "Whereas by Order in Council dated the eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-first day of the same month, at page 440, tilie control of a part of the foreshore at Ohope < Whakatane Harbour, was vested in the Whakatane County Council (hereinafter called "the Council''): And whereas the Council has applied to have the control of an additional area vested in it, and it is desirable so to do: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Domin ion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the Harbours Act, 1923,, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf* and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the First Schedule to the hcrcinbcforerecited Order in Council of the eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and doth substitute the following schedule. , First Schedule. That portion of the foreshore at Whakatane commencing at the western side of the road from Whakatane to the Ohope Beach. at the eastern boundary of the Whakatane County and extending generally north-westwards for a distance of 3.3 miles to the northern headland at Otawairere Bay."