AN ACTIVE YEAR.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 January 1909, Page 8

AN ACTIVE YEAR.

, HABBOTO BOARD'S OPEEATIONS. Th past year has been an exceptional one in f «, ™?i bS L tory J st ? tes the annual report , of the Wellington Harbonr Board). In addition to its being the first in winch the various departments of the board's service havo been / in tne hands of individual officers instead of nnaer one control, important matters 'have been under consideration whioh have called for an unprecedented amount of work on tho part St. ?h ff m «nbers of the'board and its exeoutivo officers. Tho result of the numerous meetings of the variona committees of the board, and of the labours of your officers has ' J\ first,y, the entm °S wto by the board of three agreements -One with the Welhng- ' I Ml nt Sh P Company, limited, nndfr x JVJS 8 1 " V opalr g *£° Company m Evans Bay becomes the board's after a term then ™?h rt F ki f fixM the -F IM to be then paid by the board; one with &e,corporai° the Bo T?. h of Mlratnar ' wWoh wiU C™?" a sound financial footing the carryJPtiSK P*,V rhl immediately contemplated ,t ad l l)f Erans Bay. and , t he third with the Wellington Gas Company, Limited, under *hioh, in return for certain works to be car- • t m e near future - tno b oard can acquire at cost price a part of the Gas Com-' pany"s property at Miramar, and has theririit i to remove spoil from tho hilly portions of the company's land in that locality, at such times in the future as it sees is ripe for the carrying out of fnrther reclamation at the headTf ' F^M>M 7 «. ai &,? !oMldl y> the Passing into law of (a) the Wellington Harbonr Board EmP °Tl nn A i ot >, l9oß . empowering the board to ffij out the terms of & ? aßreement with the tan 1 n i lP l ComP ?7' Md ? lso to ac 9 m ™ cer- - tain lands lying between the main roads and 1 the proposed reclamation at the head of Evans hJS& aD f the Wellington Harbour IJoard Eeolamation and Empowonng Act, 1908, nnder which the terms of the agreement witt the corporation o f t h e BorougTof Zamar are given the force of law, the major portim of that part of the bed of the harbour in l°ans Pomniaie conferred upon the board, aTd the 1h,,1, e n mi,owd t ere . d to njaio a reclamation. it "?,h ' S J° } t S V™?™** to the emtre of the city, must,, if earned out with du» fore-