THE WAIUKU CHANNEL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 186, 14 April 1914, Page 4

THE WAIUKU CHANNEL.

Proposal to Dredge It.

What Harbour Board Will Do.

At the last meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board, the Board, in committee, submitted a report on a request from the Northern Steamship Company that the Board should dredge the basin and channel leading to the Waiuku wharf. The committee recommended that, without prejudice, the company be notified that provided the Waiuku Town Bnard and the company carry out the work at a cost of cot less than £IOO, and tj the satisfaction of the Board's engineer, the Board will contribute £SO. Mr H. R. MacKenzie moved, as an amendment to the motion for the adoption of the leport, that the Board contribute £IOO. The chairman said that Mr MacKenzie's amendment practically proposed that the Board should do all the work, the cost being estimated at from £IOO to £l5O.

Mr MacKenzie: It will easily cost £l5O.

Mr Bagley said that he thought the Board should do the work, or at least that it should supervise it. Mr Bradney said he thought the Boa.d should afford all reasonable facilities to the people of the Waiuku district. Mr Entricaa said that the wharf was controlled by the Waiuku Road Board, which drew all the revenue. The chairman said that if the pre sent position was not satisfactory to the local body, it should offer to surrender its present wharf license, and thus enable the position to be readjusted. The amendment was lost, and the report was adopted.