CLIFTON DOMA1N

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 6

CLIFTON DOMA1N

Sum of £25 Needed to Pay for Transler of Land PERSONNEL OF BOARD Ail that is holding-up .tlie establish.menLof .a' properly cqnstituted Loard to control. tlie Clifton Donaain is, the paym.ent of/tlie cost of transferring the area- of land-given, by Mr F. L. Gordon to the Crown and the r.egistration of bhfe title. Efforts. are now being made to'haVe the local bodies interested meet this expe'nditiire to that tlie. Domain can become an establisbed fact. ' The matter will be discussed at the monthly meeting of -the -Hastings Chamber of Commerce on Monday evening, wl\en it is lioped th'at mernbers will be able to devise some ways of at least providing a sliare of the - amount reooired, which is just over £25. The p'ersonnel of the proposed Clifton Domain Board lias alfeady been decided upon.r the ' Mayors of Hastings and Napier, Messrs G. A. Maddison and Ci G Morse respectively, being i x-officio mernbers," as are' also the cliairman of the Hawke's' Bay County Council, Mr F, B. Logan, 'and. the member of the Clive Riding. : In addition other mernbers will be ;Dr" James Allan Borr'y, of Napier,' Messrs ' Allgu Caineron Duff, of Hastings, /F'ran:fcis Ed'gar Imithi, reprcsen.ting the Hastings Chamber of Commerce, and Lo'xley Pickerin'g, appointeU by the Napier ^hirty Thousand Clilb. Every effort is being made' now to have thW board officially set up so that it.ican begin its administrative activities as, quiekly a's, possilile. Tlie board ,will;vbe "in. a position ' immediately to carry out the erection of public convepiences and the fencing off of the aiea .at this popular beach, thanks to a donation of £100 from Mr Husheer. Tt.is lioped that tliese works will be carried out before. the. vjsiting aeason for Ihe Gamiet sauct'uary commences.