THAMES HARBOUR BOUNDARIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 124, 26 May 1888, Page 5

THAMES HARBOUR BOUNDARIES.

(by telegraph.—own correspondent.)

A RESTRICTIVE ORDER,

Thames, this day. The following important telegram from the Marine Department was to-day reoeived by the Secretary of the Thames Harbour Board :—The Minister directs me to inform you that the Governor has annulled all former limits of the port of Thames, and has defined the limits to be as follows: —To seaward an arc of a circle of five nautical miles radius from the intersection at Opani point of two lines one of which bears 242 degrees 12 minutes from trig 92 (Pukeraka), and the other bears 333 degrees 45 minutes from trig 90 (Telegraph tower), and shall include so much of the Thames or Waihou River aa is includod by a right line drawn across said river in a southwesterly direction, being a prolongation of the south-western boundary lino of block 4,682 (Te Ngutu o to Manu), and no more of the Piako Rivor than is bounded by a right line drawn across the river botween the telegraph tower near the mouth thereof. These limits will appear in to-day's ' Gazette.' :1 This greatly curtails the boundaries of the Harbour Board, and places the whole of the saw mills, excepting thoso cf the Shortland Saw Mill Company, out of their jurisdiction. It Is just possible that the Harbour Board will resign en masse.