HARBOUR BOARD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1269, 26 October 1911, Page 5

HARBOUR BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. '. The monthly moeting of tho Welling- , ton Harbour Board was held last night. There were present: The chairman (Mr. | R. Fletcher), and Messrs. P. C. Freeth, A. H. Hindmarsh, J. E. Fitzgerald, H. E. Towsley, R. C. Renner, C. W. Jones, s M. Cohen, C. E. Daniell, J. G. Harkness, 1 A. Macfarlane, J. Cobbe, and J. Trevor. £ CONTRACTS. *' Tho chairman reported that the tender r of Mr. C. F. Pulley for tho contract for I construction of concrete sea wall across j tho entranco to tho dock site at Te Aro t lor the sum of .£5212 7s. lid., with Messrs. t Francis Holmes and Robert Sanders as \ sureties, had been accepted. v. Ho reported also that the agreement t with the Wellington Harbour Ferries, i Ltd., for tug and pilot scrvico for three v 1 years from November 1 had been exe- \ cuted. t Tho chairman was authorised to con- t tract with tho U.S.S. Company for the 1: use of tho fire float Terav.hiti in tho s event of an outbreak on tho board's pro- i porty, at the rate of .£25 for tho first n t<v;. hours, and XlO for every subsequent t hoar. h RONA BAT WHARF. It was '.decided, in responso to tho n requests of the Eastbourne Borough Coun- " cil, to effect certain improvements on e the Rona Bay Wharf. The Eastbourne v proposal was to drive spring-piles to " make the wharf workablo by the steam- )' ers in rough weather, but the officers of , tho board were of opinion that these piles would not bo satisfactory, and on the ? harbourmaster's recommendation the : board decided that rope fenders on tho f corners of the wharf be tried. These , will cost about .£2O. The request to havo " the waiting shed moved nearer to the r ' end of tho wharf was granted, tho esti- ° mate of cost being £SO. Concerningiim s , provements on tho wharf at Wellington, . the chairman suggested that consider.!- V tion should be deferred until a coniprc- ' hensive report could bo obtained on tho c ferry wharf generally. Ho urged that P more accommodation was necessary for ? the boats had not room to move, and it ' : would soon bo necessary to lengthen the J present wharf, and to build another wharf. '' The board withheld decision on tho matter meantime, and the engineer was in- e structed to furnish tho report. s S.S. lONIC. t Tho Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, ? Ltd., asked permission to discharge the l! s.s. lonic continuously day and night, a on account of special urgency. Tho ur- a gency was the desire on tho part of the & owners to pick up time lost on account j), of the strike in London delaying load- J.; ing. The steamer will call at Welling- *■'' ton and Lytteltou only, and will leavo J; New Zealand on November lif possible. , The request was granted. Si REFRIGERATED STORAGE. d Mr. J. G. Harkness gavo notice to move:—"That the engineer bo instructed ?, to select on tho reclaimed ground a suitable site for the erection of a building j 1 for freezing and storage of dairy produce, the site to Iks chosen adjacent to H the Glasgow Wharf, with a view to tho economical and efficient handling of such " produco railed or borne coastwise; that n plans, together with an estimato of tho probable cost, bo prepared of a building for the abovo purpose in a design that 1 will permit of the immediate construction in tho cheese-rcoin, in time for season 1912-13, and submitted for consideration of the board, with tho proposed annual 0I woTks to be undertaken during 1912, fur- f' ther consideration of tho complcto plan n to 'bo deferred until such timo as may a be o.'eeined necessary to finish it." ® RISK FUND. a The recommendation of tho Wharves 1' and Accounts Committee to establish a Public Risk Fuud by setting aside XIOOO a during the current finaucial year and itSOO per annum thereafter until tho c: fund reaches .CSCOO, was adopted. £ < SINKING FUND. 13 It was reported that tho Sinking Fund as at September 30 stood at ,£127,Ge0 14s. a Id., showing an increaso of .£10,337 4s. 7d. in twelve months. Tho average yield fi was £i 10s. sJ<l. per cent. ". ... al u