NEW RECLAMATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 1, 26 September 1918, Page 7

NEW RECLAMATION

A: STEP FORWARD

PLANS TO BE DISCUSSED.

Tim wisdom of pushing forward, with tlio proposed reclamation works in the Kuiwarra Bight was once more emphasiaed at last jiight's meeting of the Harbour Board. "The chairman (Mr. C. E. Daniell) said' that ho liad received a letter from the general manager of railways (Mr. E. H. Hiley) stating, in effect, that complete plans-of the new station' and railway works contingent upon the proposed reclamation at Tliovndon were now almost complete/ on tho lines of tlioso proposed itv 1003 , ,' and that he hoped ho would lie in a position, to invite tho chairman of the board and the Mayor to. discuss them towards tho end of the present month. Mr. Daniell said ho had written in re.' ply that he hoped they would decide to go tho whole way with the railway scheme. He had also suggested that To Aro Railway Station site—in view of tho city's reouiroments near the destructor —shoulcfi come under review at the. same time. - " because he considered | that tho ,hoard and the City Council should know how it was all going to end. It was now near tho end of the mouth—there was still a day or t,wo— but he had hoard nothing further. Mr. J. G. C'obbt: wished to know if tho Railway Department now favoured tho reclamation of the whole of the CiO acres. If they made one big job of it they would only need to build one cutsido wall. Tho chairman .said that that had been the attitude of the board all nloiif:, and they hoped to sustain it. it wan quito clear, on the evidence of fiucfcssive- engineers, that it was tho thing to bo donn, ;iml if they ivero to be ablu to pay their bills in the future they must do something to further tho interests of the port. Mr. J. (i. Cobbe: It won't j. r ,o on for another fifteen .years, I 1.0pe.. (Laughter.) Mr." J. G. HarkiH's.s asked if the present srlipmo differed materially from that of 1903. The chairman: No; only in so far .is has been dictated by the opening out-of the railways. Two years-ago, however, the- Department only favoured- dniujj. half the. reclamation, but since then they havo 'favoured going on with the whole, of it, and have actually asktul what is- the smallest arch The board can du with. Wellington will want the land. It will take ten years to reclaim. Wo mush do eonH 1 thing to pay our way and should push forward with tho work. Whetber'it is for the railways, the Harbour Hoard, or the city, the work should be done. Mr. M. Cohen welcomed Mr. lliley's letter as something tangible. Tho discussing of plans at least was u sieji forward.