THE PATENT SLIP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 7

THE PATENT SLIP.

9 ...;.' TO BE PURCHASED BY THE ' HARBOUR BOARD. .H ;COMPULSORILY OR BY AGREEMENT. ■■' The ■'Wellington' Harbour Board, which has .more,' than once been on tho point of purchasing the Patent Slip at'Evans Bay', has at "length decided to do "so". 'Obviously, the filial'stimulus was supplied-'by the Action of the .Unipn Steamship Cqtiipany in acquiring a.conttolling interest in;;t-ke- t Slip just,ivjicn the project of the Evans._£ay reclamation was ripening. -.-■ -,- -■> ,-.;• This important decision of the HaVbour Board was taken at a special meeting hold in committee yesterday ; aftornoon. . Tho • resolutions .were as (1) That the secretary of the Board _ '.■■•.• be Instructed to take steps to acquire, the property and assets .'of-.the Patent" ; Slip Company, either 'at 'a price to be settled by agreement;' or cornpul* ~...,.. sorily. ■■ ~>a , :l . a-A :(2) That the secretary be autljo*,, .rlsed to take such aijtioflias may bV : proper to give effect'to 1 the above - resolution. ...._._ .'.When the resolutions..Jferq. reported^from Lcommittoo, ftnd adopted by:tho Board,? Mr. IT. Beauchamp said thafciic 'Wished it to be 'placqd.Qii record that he.Jiad not yotcjljor the resolutions. \ : ; .;;• • .;: The following were tho.-.btJlor members., of the Board present at the mooting;—The''Hon. '• T: fc Macdonald, M.L.6. Xciiairmauji Hon.' T. W, Hislop, Messrs. Jr-M'Lella« r -F.H. Fraser, R. Fletcher, andC.'E. UanieL";