The Waitara Foreshore.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 131, 7 June 1904, Page 4

The Waitara Foreshore.

CONFERENCE OF THE BOARDS. The numbers of the New Plymouth Harbour Hoard visited Waitara on Thursday for the purpose of inquiring into tho position of their endowments on the Waitara foreshore. As the afternoon was wet, the locality at tho mouth of the river, on the southern side, was not visited, and a conference took place at the Board office. Unfortunately, through some oversight we suppose, we were not advised of the arrangement, and have to depend upon second-hand information, but ait informed that the subject was gone into at considerable length, and it was pretty clearly shown that the New Plymouth Board are in the superior position, having a Crown land grant of the foreshore from the southern side of the river to Moturoa. The Waitara Board urged that under the Harbours Act, it could stop any interference with Ihe foreshore, but it seems evident looking at the matter from a legal standpoint, that up to the south wall at the Waitara River, the local Board lias practically no foreshore at all, and the best policy seems to be to make the best terms possible with the New Plymouth Board to obtain control. We understand' that the last-named body seem willing, so far as members expressed themselves on Thursday last, to give up all rights to the land on which the south wall stands, and allow control of the foreshore to include the Waiongona reef, under certain conditions, which will mean that the local body may remove as much stone as it requires from the reef, but it must not touch the iron-sand.—Waitara Mail.