NAPIER NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 238, 16 October 1901, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS

PRESENTATION To MR G. IF

SWAN

[ay TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Napier, last night. Ml' G. H. Swan, ex-.Mavor of Napier, was to-day presented with a purse of sovereigns by the people of Hawke’s Bay. and an illuminated address from tha

Municipal Council’ on the occasion of hi. leaving Napier to take up his residence in Hawcra. The Mayor, in making tha presentation, referred to trie public spirit shown by Mr Swan during the 67 years he had lived in Napier, for 2-1 years of which time he had sat in tho Council as Councillor and Mayor, having held the latter office for 161 years without intermission. He had aiso represented Napier in Parliament, and had acted as Chairman of the Charitable Aid Hoard and Hospital Board for many years, and had for 1< years been a member of the Harbor Hoard. In every capacity, he had rendered the most valuable serv ices to the -Borough. The esplanade, of which Napier was justly proud, and many other works were monuments of Mr .Swan's increasing efforts for the benefit of tha town. The present had been spontaneously contributed by the people not only of Napier but of Hawke’s Hay, and was the best testimony that could be given of how .Mr Swan s services iiad been appreciated. and on behalf of the people of Hawke's Hay he wished Mr Swan tha greatest prosperity and health in his new sphere.

In responding, Mr Swan said ho hoped m a few years Napier would give him the i pleasure of opening their finished breakj water, which, he considered, was the only thing wanting to make Napier progress as it ought to do. HARBOR HOARD. At the Harbor Hoard meeting to-day it was announced that E shed, at the root of the breakwater, had been gazetted a Customs exam illation shed. The committee resolved to slightly alter the tariff rates by making horse boxes ("empty) Is 6d each, ami adding on the following Ballast stone, shingle, sand, rubble, etc., Is per ton in or out ; coal cargoes in bulk landed or shipped at the breakwater haulage rate od per ton, the consignee to supply railway trucks, and all such coal to be weighed on the Hoard’s weighbridge, the minimum charge in such cases, .£2 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m Overtime rates to be paid outside of these hours.