BOATING AND THE CAMBRIDGE LAKE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1915, 14 October 1884, Page 3

BOATING AND THE CAMBRIDGE LAKE.

Tl!I-> question was fnlh dbcu-sed at the meeting of the Cainbndge Domain Iso,>id on S.itmcl ty. An application was lcceivetT f i 0111 the ovvneis of cuioes on Lake 'IV Koutu foi pei mission to eiect ;i nioonii< post on the maigm of the Lake to which to hCCIlie tIIOH boats. JMi Knkwood lose to speak to the ques twin. Ho said it was a piece of nnpeili nence to sUit with. Tli.it piece oi piopeitv (the L.ike leserve) was in the keeping of the domain boaid, and he coiisideied the people who made this tpplicition as tiesp.isseis, and tlieie should neither hu bo,->ts vi boathouses if he had anything to .say in the nutter. Jf tlit-e \ouug gentlemen wanted to develop then mu-cles theie «,b plenty of loom foi them on the Y\ aikato user. The* (the I o.ud) wished to put fowl-, of cveiy do-idiptmii «>u the L ikj and they should, moi(so\ei, be c.nehil tli.it the native fowl weie not allowed to be c'lstiulicd, These Lo.'ts on the Lake weie used foi catching buds with fishing lines He was avvaie that sucii a tlimg 1 was bein^ can md "ii, and pietfv extensively too ; it was the vvoisL kind of poaching, and .1 dis pi ace to those who weie eiuai;ed in it. The boaid was now beautify in.'" the Lake toi tin ))leasuie of the people ol the place. IVimiii,illy, In 1 should like to lie able, when that Lake became the altiaetive s|nit winch they intended it to be, to In- able to walkround the ni'ii yi 11. and seethe beautiful buds swimming about undi tmbed. He •would not s,iy that the gentlemen who ow ned these bolts w eie },iveii to tin; poii.liing piactice he had letmed to, but tin boats weie used by lav lknis who weie IJ(; hoped the boaid would, in the com so of a \eiy shoit tune, nupoit tame fowls on to the Like. .Mi Wells mtei posed that the bo its would not distin b tame fowls. Mi Knkwood lephed that at any late no spoitsin tn would allow boats to be on the Like. .Mi Wells leniaiked foi Mi Knkwood • infiiiniation tl.at one of tl>e boat owneis had come to him and made a statement to the eiiect that then ob]t ct in electing a moot ing post was th it they might lock up their boats so th.it l.'i i ikui' and othei -. w ho v ci? in the habit of miking use ot tin m v ithout leave might be debaiied fiom such a pi.u-tice in futuie. Mi Ifewitt endoi-cd the leniuks of Mi Kirkv o )d. Jle m >,l ceitunly ayieed with the opinions expiessed by lliat gentleman Mi Wells was of opinion that to den\ tlieie gentlemen the pn\ ilepre the*' sought, and to which he c nisideied they weie entitled, would be a somewhat aibitiaiv com so foi thebo.udto pursue Tlie cla - of boats wai not of a oh u ictei suit ible foi pleismc tup^ on the Walk ito I!iva. Mi Kukwood : Well, let them go and bin those that aie suitxble. Mr Hewitt believed that fully tlneefourths ot the people in the town would be in favoui of the ducks. Tbe\ did vit tel] tin se boat-owneis to put tin i nut- "n tht Like, they did n< t give thv.ni jiihin- n.n to do so. Mi Kukvvdfid icmukcd tl 1 ■ t theie v is nothing nioie atti active t/> his nc than web footed fowl sailing about on the watei .Mi IVhei tli it this (|iie tion had not oc • isi.i ied hun much thought It wis qi.iteev.de.il that tin y could nor, u r et the fowl to i'»ii,nn „lii,\\fc tin lji'\e without sheltei He und'Mstood th it it wa tin 1 intention of thi In) lid t' .' 'liovi- .ill the >vvth fiom >b m ( tl.i w it' i - i"!,'' 1 Tin \ bad .die l'!v i"i'io\ '1 all ihe fiou> about the bank-, .'lul when the\ letnoved what now ien amed theic would be acttnll} no sheltei at all to s]ii',ik of. The luids would then be "newi.noit " Of couisp they intended inakini, r .utideial slieltei in Llicw.iy of islands, iVc, but some >enis would elapse befoie that sheltei would be available ; and in the meantime they might affoul this pu\ liege to the boats. }le would .suggest that the boats have six months trial, and if the aii.'iiigenient was not -atisfactoiy at the end of that tune they had the light to oidei them oft then. V>\ making the Lake a public lesoit they weie taking the Miiest means of chasing off these wild buds. Mi Hewitt thought they had got a sufficiently long tnil. If Mr Kishei was as con vei.sant with the mattei .is he was he wo'dd have no hesitation in consenting to the abolition of the boils Mr Fishei said a boy had been di owned in the Lake soiuiMeus ago, wh'ii theie weie no boats on the Like by vvhic'i a lesciie might have been ittemptid. Wine the boat, to lie put off now, and a like accident mcm to '(line pei -on bitlnng, what a howl of ]iist indignation theie would be as>.uns( the boaid. Mr Ivnkwood contended that it was the duty of the boaid to do away with these cockle shells m the inteiest of common humanity, that they might piesoi ye _ the lives of those \oung people who weie given to boating. Mi Wells then moved, "That pei mission asked foi be gi anted with the following leseivations :— "Fust, that the pel mission be.isatn.d for m\ months only; second, that no boats other than those now on the Lake be peinntted to be used theie." Mr Hewitt would oppose the morion. Mi Fishe-i thought any pei'non ought to be allowed to put on bonts in the meantime. If the pi n liege held good to one section of the people, cv en only foi six. months, they could not debai otheis from enjoying a like piivilege. The meie fact that the bo.ud was likely to cancel theii right at the end of six months was, he thought, a .sufficient detenent to otheis going to the expense of building new laoatb. He would, however, second the motion. Mr Knkwood thought the matter should either be done now oi not at all. He would strongly oppose any tnal being given. Ho would move as an amendment, "That the question bo left to a full meeting of the boaid. "' Mr Hewitt seconded. Mr lusher had no objection to this being done. Weie the motion put it would be can ied by the. chaii man's casting \ote, and he did not desire to see the matter settled in that way. He was quite willing that the motion .should be withdiawn in favour of the amendment. Motion withdrawn accordingly. The amendment becoming the oiiginal motion was then unanimously agieed to. The Chan man remarked that the motion was> tantamount to shelving the question for pei Imps six months, as they had not had a full meeting of the board for about six months past.

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