THE HARBOUR BOARD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 17 February 1911, Page 4

THE HARBOUR BOARD.

PROPOSED ALLOWANCE FOR CHAIB- ' •MAN., ' ' ' I ' " At next week's meeting of the .Welling- . " ton Harbour Board, Mr.'T. M. Wilford . intends to move:— . : " ,That in accordance with the. powers given to the board: under Sec- : : •- tioh 23 of The 'Harbours Amendment Act, 1910,'the-chairman of the , Wellington Harbour.Board'he granted an, allowance at the rate of .£2OO per . anntfm as from-January 1,1911. ■ • The above proposal is made possible,. by Clause 23 in the Harbours Amendment • • Act of last session, which reads:— - "(1) Notwithstanding anything in Section .40 of the principal Act, the • ' chairman may be paid such annual . allowance at a rate not: exceeding two • hundred pounds, the board from time to _ time determines.; > - (2) No " aUeration in the amount ■ shall take effect during -the term of oEco •of any chairman. / (3). For, the purposes ,of ,}his section a person re-elected as .chairman . .. - . ehallijbe /.considered. a. new, chairman. There is a nice '» point; involved in' th« - . been arranged. ' Mr.. Wilfora6. motion is to come up at the Tegular, month-; ly'meeting,' :which (the . notice l states)-is . to -be held, atuhe cojiclusion. oMhe. an- . niial meeting-oh Tuesday next. ,Th 4 Act particularly points out that^no''alteration _ shall he made in the amount of. an allowance paid to a chairman, so, assuming ! that Mr. Robert .Fletcher ,is.. ,re-clected chairman (which ; will -probably be tho . case) at the annual meeting, he under- - takes to carry out the duties for nils then brans in ofneo .the board cannot very ; well alter the, existing position of • -.things. If the order, of the meetings were' I reversed the position - would, ,of course, • Ibe quite different.-, . , ■