TIMARU HARBOR BOARD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1906, 20 June 1889, Page 3

TIMARU HARBOR BOARD.

\ The monthly meeting of this board wea held yesterday. Present—Messrs E. Acton (chairman), Morris, Wilson, Flatman, Talbot, Manchester, and Capt*. Woollcombe and Sutter. Mr Flatman apologised for the absence of Mr K. F. Gray. The Bank of New Zealand wrote forwarding a statement of the interest account, and said they had placad to ersdit the sum of £14345, renewing the balance of £28,600 at fixed deposit of six per cent, as per statement prodsced. The bank also wrote slating that they had remitted the sum of £SOOB to their manager in Londen, as progress payments for new tug, the money to be paid on the certificates of Mr John Darling. A letter waa read from the New Zealand Shipping Company stating that Captain Miller of the Fifeshire would not nead the services of the Titan on going out of port. It the letter sent by the secretary by direction of the chairman it was stated that the harbormaster considered that the tug was necessary in the present case to take the Fifeshire out. In future on receipt of a letter from the shipping company stating that the tug was not required, no ehsrge would be made unless the harbormaster ordered the tug. With regard to the foreshore endowments the chairman said that he bad Been Mr Turnbull, the member for Timaru, and he bad wired to the Premier about it. From the latter a rep'y had been received by Mr Turnbull, which had been seat to the board. The Premier feared from what occurred last session in the Legislative Council that three months’ notice of the proposed Bill would be insisted upon. The Government would certainly raise no objection to the proposed Bill, for want oi notice. If the board had any report from their engineer on the question of the aocuuulation of shingle and the advisability of reclaiming land in Caroline Bay, the Premier asked that such documents might bo forwarded by the firat mail. The Government, the Premier added, would be glad to give the board every assistance, and said that the only wsy lo get tb« Bill through was to make it a Government mispuro.— The chairman said this matter had been attended to at once. A request from Mr Sunnwey and others that a certain part of the harbor might be set apart for mooring fishing boats waa postponed until next meeting, to allow of inquiries into cost of moorings, etc., to be made. , , ~ The harbourmaster reported for May the arrival of 23 steamers, and 5 sailing vessels, aggregating 9422 tons, and the departure of 23 steamers, and 6 sailing vessels, aggregating 10,735 tons. During the month the weather was fine, with occasional heavy seas. The Engineer a report was read, Ihe spare concrete blocks at the breakwater have all been removed from the blockyard and stacked on the parapet offset. The dredge has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired since last meeting and is now in first class order. But little dredging has been done since date of last report, only 520 tons. A bell buoy for the purpose of guarding the Lyttelton wreck is in course of construction, and be completed in a few days after the arrival of the bell. It is advisable that a few yards of rubble should be deposited at the north-east corner of the landing service; the clay bank is being washed away.—The chairman said that enquiries had been made since last meeting about wreck buoys, but nothing of the kind they needed had been found in stock. The harbormaster , on further consideration seemed to think , that they could make use of one of the

buoys the board had, with the addition o a bell. If this answered the saving to the board would be considerable. On the question of leading lights the fllmirimn said be had coosultod the Harbormaster, who was of opinion that the best plan would be to have light at the end of the breakwater and one at the end of the north mote as leading light*. If others were erected confusion might arise, In reply to queations the engineer said that he found on measurement that the contractors had yet to go between U 0 and 160 feet before they reached the turn in the north mole, and Mr Morris said that one of the contractors told him that they expected to finiah this contract inside nine months’ time. The engineer was then requested to notify the contractors the board might at any time resume poosiesaion of the block making ground, e'o. Some correspondence on theShaw-Savili appeal case was dealt with in committee, and accounts amounting to £1493 4* 10(1 having been passed for payment the meeting terminated.