THE HARBOR BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 4271, 3 November 1876, Page 2

THE HARBOR BOARD.

The following business was transacted after we went to press yesterday:- »■««■» ««* we *HS SOUTH DUBXDIH MUBICIPiXIIT*S BXSXBVS The Secretary intimated that yesterday afternoon he had received a communication from the Crown Lands Office here. That department had been requested to forward to the head office in Wellington a plan and description of the land between the Ocean Beach Railway line and the Anderson's Bay road, proposed to be granted to the Harbor Board/' He learned that Mr Strode, on receipt of the memo., forwarded it to the Government, with a request that Mr M'Kerrow would Bupply the infor. mation desired j and it was returned to the Deputy. Commissioner yesterday afternoon with an mtamation that he would require to get the information from the Harbor Board. He saw that evening in the report of the meeting of tie Lands Board that, on the recommendation of the Provincial Government, it had agreed to reserve ten acres of land between the Ocean Beach railway and Andersons Bay road, and to hand them over to the South Dunedin Municipality This led h.m to make inquiries, and he discovered that the land was a portion of the endowment pro-, mised to the Harbor Board-in fact, the portion which was to be Crown-granted. In the maps sent up by the Board to the General Government, and m the grants of the sections facing the Anderson's Bay road, deposited in the Crown Grants Office, they were showa as being bounded by Otaao harbor, with high-water mark along the road, flow it appeared, from a map prepared by Mr M Kerrow some time last year—about Marchshowing the high-water mark to be far below where It really was, and including the Peninsula and Ocean Beach Bailway. He pointed out that the General Government, before consenting to the con. struction of the Dunsdin and Ocean Beach Bailway. required that the permission of the Harbor Board should be given to the line being taken through this very ground. • Mr liEip: The question is whether the land belongs to the Board or not. Mr M'Nsa« I never heard a word of doubt M to tfldt. The Chaibmah .- The Government have been re. fajamendiug the Land Board to deal with something that did not belong to them. -»««»- Mr Beid ; The statement of Mr Gillies is ooraeob W » way } and yet it is not correct, The. Aortas*

teat of it is tfafc, T*t ~, JafcjdJtjKi,, about the right th began in either January or Fetetar3ffi» 7»&k£. was raised whetiier the line on land below high-water mark. below high-water mark belongs to ItoeflSSEtfl at events, it was- a debateabfe pointwfigg&tifr Und-was below high-water markTwe mlteKr M«Bsrrow,.who was instrooted to makV»«r«fnl survey to See whether the land was fcelow fciirh. wafcer mart The resul was the tf a shows that high-water backward and forward in the-way,j%*££ed S,to laa - ? dld not &°r W and bein s made over until I read thi ß mondnßol no mg *?? { , but tbiß J»oknow, takiagthTilan Kir db / lb at fi~l impression «»' tiu> land was wastelands of the Crown. ♦wf* if®? 1 " I *, B^that *>«• W»w» giants showed Mr Bran: Ih March, lS7srit was uod« alsmdVtar being above high-water nark. «Haxw»»ny Mr S2? a Ti« M^r hfc 5" J*"* *«**• enoaeous P ' Mr Beid: at your Bill and Mewfclfc you have got. The Bill gives youoerWif&wera! the view of Mr M'Kerrow, an impartial officer; who personally saw the surveytxmductedhy andSeerta whomhe had confidence, and he says 4at tiTland was Crown land, being above high-water mark. TheChaduun: AHthis ■ Mtßxid: More than that The Chaibmak : Why, high water comes on to tfa. Anderson's Bay Boad, andnoods it at times? * Mr Beu>: Mr M'Kerrow had no feeling - V&.

Mr Beid : But it is not in you. Mr M'Nxnx: But we would still nliim lit n~_ tteground that the General AJSSSimSK ffSSBSft SS^SSSfe this land as ours. Wh£ should thToiMBSS? ment have asked our gachßailway to pass Cg* J°Ss?WS rJ2£ s?° : J t goes through your land In am parts, whenever the tide goes unf I Smtt ££3? stated byJfcßad ****" **■ pu^SaK ßlls Ptrhaps **• Qovernmeut intend to

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