OPUNAKE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 38, 4 July 1914, Page 6

OPUNAKE NEWS.

.. hai:i;o:; boabd. (I'riiiii .Our Own C.iri-cspondeul.) Tim ordinary i;ioni,hly meeting <>f the Board was held on Thursday afternoon. l'j-t'«ont: Mi-sr.-, ]|ugh-on (chairman) Moore. Malcolm, McKcown, La.mliic, MacFi".

A committee appointed to report on the procedure necessary for taking a poll it ported Uiey could not do anything until .-:k-1i time as they received infounarioii from the Marine Department as .t.i tlie Heard's quaiifieatioa to rai-e a loan under the IftOS Loans to Local Bodies Art. as prescribed in the Opimake Harbor Bill. Tin- 1008 act had been repealed l>v 111" IM3 net. and I'ndor the latter act. Harbor Board districts are excluded. Tim Assistant-Secretary of Lands wrote that the Commissioner of Crown Lands liad been authorised to prepare warrant under the Laud Transfer Act for titles to land leased by the Board. This has "tie -n nei'e.->ary, as the Opunakc Harbor Bill, being a private Bill, had not power to grant titles for lease of the endowment lands. Ti:e Board went into committee to discuss the engineer's (Mr Cyrus Williams) report. On resuming it was decided to eaM a public meting in Gpunake and place the engineer's repoit and the Board's estimate before the ratepayers. The enginei r's report stated tli.'it u mole 9011 ft, in length would ail'ord :-ulf:cient shelter in all weather !o aloiv of a vessel of from 10 to \i feet draught, berthing and discharging at the proposed wharf, and the cost of a ino'e and wharf would be about: Plant £7OOO. excavation of road and Be-df ill cliff fa;-c, £-ISOO. rails and sleep, ers, £OOO staging for tipping si one finforming the mole £1)000, stone in mole £15,200. total. K7.000; new wharf, fiOOfl, grand total, £|-_>.,ofl(\ The report was adopted. From the di-euvsion, it was not elicited that even if an adverse vole is given to the proposal at the public meeting, tile p"l! will be taken. By the "outer scheme" is meant the latest celii'ini' which provid"d for the commencement of the mole a distance outside the present jelly, and provision made for future extension. The first nrnpoMl did not niak" any ni.,',L:ion for future "Xtenooii to d i i water.

The Poultry Ci\h held tliri,- ami'ial fliow on Wednesday, and (lie o!a-- of entries was first-class. Stewart and Landspci'",', of Xoniiiiiiliy. .-ceured the ehanipionsliip and special prize-. Mes-r----l-,!)er and Malcolm. Waller, .Irahnn. and Slieplierd were the principal pri.xtakers locally.