FOXTON WHARF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1735, 27 September 1917, Page 3

FOXTON WHARF.

SMALL AMENDMENTS TO BILL.

The Local Bills .Committee recommended, to the House of Representatives yesterday that the Foxton Harbour Board Act, 1008, Amendment Bill be proceeded Avith, subject to the amendments made by the committee. Most of the amendments are machinery ones. Clause 8 has been struck out and replaced by the folloAA’ing:— “(1) His Majesty the King may transfer, and the board may acquire, the lauds and assets described in the second schedule hereto (subject as regards portions thereof to the leases for a term of years to Levin and Co., Ltd., and to the lease on a year-to-year tenancy, determinable by three months’ notice, to the West Coast Steamship and Trading Company, Ltd.), upon payment by'the board of the sum of £5,000, and upon payment of the said sum the said lands and assets shall by force of this Act vest in the board for the purpose for Avhich it is constituted.

“(2) For the purpose of this section the term ‘assets’ shall not be deemed to include —(a) The materials of any sidings or the rentals or any other charges payable in respect of any sidings uoav laid, ox Avhich may hereafter be laid, by the Railway Department upon the said land; or (b) any buildings, machinery, or structures erected on the portions of the said land held under lease by the companies hereinbefore mentioned.

“(3) The cart access leading to the land leased to Levin and Co., Ltd.; aforesaid, shall cease and determine on the first day of January, 1928.”