HARBOR BOARD.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1459, 19 October 1878, Page 3

HARBOR BOARD.

Friday, October 18. The Harbor Board held a meeting at the Government Buildings yesterday. Present— Mr R. J. S. Harman (chairman), the Mayor of Lyttelton, Messrs Cunningham, Wright, D, Craig, H. Sawtell, C. W. Turner. acting-chairman’s statement.

The acting-chairman (Mr R. J. S. Harman) eaid —The Lyttelton Harbor Board Bill, as amended in the Legislative Council, has been, I am advised, passed by the House of Representatives. Further correspondence with the National Bank of New Zealand on the subject of the Harbor Board Debentures will be read to you to-day. A telegram will also be read from our chairman in reference to the proposal to employ the hard labor gang upon the Beach road, to eastward of Olficer’s Point. The lighthouse apparatus for the Officer's Point Breakwater has been received, and stowed in the large shed at Peacock’s wharf. It is necessary that the Board should direct that tenders bo called for the erection of the basement for it. I may state that the Hon, Commissioner of Customs, upon being applied to, permitted the passing of the lighthouse apparatus free of Customs duty. A letter was received yesterday from the general manager of the N.Z. Shipping Company, advising the receipt of a cablegram from Captain Fox, at Singapore, stating that the tug Lyttelton would sail from that port on the Kith October, and that all was well. The following sums have been paid into the Board’s credit since our last meeting:— Wharfage for two weeks ending 21st Sept., 1878, £BSO 14s 9d ; warps, licenses^&c., £22; total, £872 14s 9d. A number of accounts will bo submitted to you for payment. Among them are included the sums paid or payable to Messrs Parkinson and Hawkins for the land purchased from them in terms of the resolution passed at our last ordinary meeting. I may state that Mr Parkinson has signed the deed of conveyance to the Board, and the deed of transfer from Mr Hawkins will probably be signed to-morrow, A report will be read from our engineer on the following subjects, namely— re the reclamation from Boat Jetties to Gladstone Pier ; re dredging required to be done in front of Gladstone Wharf extension ; re land purchases, Naval Point. Several of the questions will require resolutions directing the necessary action thereon. A report will be read from Mr F. Strouts, architect, reporting upon the experiment which the Board some time since authorised to be made with the petrifying liquid upon the exterior walls of the time-ball building. It will be seen that Mr Strouts recommends the application of a “white stone liquid” to the white stone portion of the building. As both the tenders for the boiler tubes and for the Gladstone Pier and Screwpile Jetty extensions will be sent in by 12 noon on Tuesday next, I propose that our next meeting bo held on that day, at 12.80 p.m., for the purpose of opening and dealing with the tenders. I have received an application from the Lyttelton Regatta committee asking for a grant in aid of the Lyttelton Regatta of 1879. It will be remembered that the Board granted a sum of £25 towards the last year’s regatta. ENGINEER'S REPORT. The report 'of the engineer was read, forwarding plan for reclamation between Gladstone Pier and the boat landings; also a letter from the Resident Engineer, intimating that the Government did not intend to make any more embankments between the Gladstone Pier and the boat landing. After pome discussion of a conversational character, . Mr Wright moved—'“ the attention of the Government bo called to the necessity of protecting the facing of the embankment which they have recently constructed between the Gladstone Wharf and tho Boat Harbor to prevent the material being washed down to the bottom of the harbor and entailing on this Board the cost of dredging it out again, and the Board hope that tho Government will complete tho reclamation to their boundary before they undertake the protective works.” Mr Cunningham seconded the motion, which was agreed to. Mr Cunningham moved—“ That the superintending engineer of the dredge be instructed to take the earliest possible opportunity of dredging the front of the proposed extension of the Gladstone Wharf, and Mr Bell he instructed to report how close to the breakwater it is safe to dredge.” Mr Allwright seconded tho motion, which was agreed to. ACCOUNTS. Accounts to the amount of £1639 were passed and ordered to be paid. TIME BALL TOWER. A report was read from Air Btrouta detailing the success of the experiments with the petrifying liquid on the walls of the lime-hail tower tolieep out tho damp, and recommending that the white stone liquid should be used for tho white stone quoins. On the motion of Mr Craig if was resolved to carry out tho suggestiou of Mr Strouts us to tho use of the white stone liquid.

HARBOR BOARD DEBENTURES. A considerable quantity of correspondence regarding the Harbor Board debentures was read, which had passed between the Board and the National Bank of Now Zealand. LIGHTHOUSE AT OFFICER'S POINT. Mr Wright moved “That tenders be called for the construction of the basement for the lighthouse proposed to be erected at Olllcer’s Point Breakwater.” Mr Sawtell seconded the motion, which was agreed to. LYTTELTON REGATTA. The Acting Chairman read a letter from Mr H. C. Jacobson, secretary to the Lyttelton Regatta Committee, asking for a grant in aid of the annual regatta. Mr Craig moved—“ That the sum of £25 be voted in aid of the Lyttelton Regatta 1878 9,” Mr Wright seconded the motion, which was agreed to. EMPLOYMENT OF PRISON LABOR. The Acting Chairman read a telegram from the Chairman at Wellington, regarding the employment of prison labor on the formation of Beach road to the east of Officer's Point. Some discussion ensued, bub nothing definite was arrived at, THE DREDGE. It was decided to call for tenders for the supply of castings for dredge, for six months, at per cwt., and also to order two pairs of wheels to be sent out from Home, by the builders of the dredge. TENDERS. It was resolved that the Chairman and Mr Cunningham bo authorised to open and accept tenders for the Gladstone pier, screwpile jetty, &c. NEXT MEETING. The next meeting was fixed a fortnight hence, at Lyttelton.