HARBOUR BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 67, 18 March 1908, Page 7

HARBOUR BOARD.

The following business was transacted at the meeting of the Harbour Board yesterday after we went to Press. Tramway Company.—The Board resolved, in connection with the application of Mr. Walklate. in relation to a temporary pumping house for Auckland Electric Tramways Company. Ltd.. -That the portion of land at foot of Hoboon-street. say »> feet by 37 feet as per plan marked A."' forwarded in Tramway Company* letter, be lot to the Auckland Elee-tri,- ' Tramways Company Ltd.. upon temporary occupation such occupation to bo terminable upon three months notice on either side: rental to be at the rate of £52 pC r annum, payable quarterly in advance." Tenders.—The following tenders were received for scoria and blue stone for breastworks at Calliope Dock reclamations. Birkenhead and Freeman's Bay: Treves Bro\¥*l*- 53519 14/3 iaccepted,-. J. Endeau. £4300 Engineer's estimate was , ™_^i! ra x- W - llarf — TU " B^" 1 deeded that | Messrs. Napier, Entrican. and the Chairi man he a committee to obtain capstans a t the railway wharf. The Engineer said seven would be required. He proposed to SrJ_ lr 1 " 0 M[,S,MS - M r- Macfarlane | ellew attention to the danger at the railway wharf in that the edges sloped away, and , there was no kerning to prevent a cart Mr ' "*»«r l *M hi. Intention was that no <--_rt would h ; r . c !£_?«! n , n,J ? hl> f'ise of the wi,arf° On Mr. Macfarlane s motion the matter of kerbing on the wharves was refen-e.l tn n,e r>„.,, i ,■ . ""- lv ' tied li (lie i.ourd in committee. Mr Kueen s-ii.i about 12 months ago a man near'v lost his life because there was nothinir 'to ent.-l, hold of on the edge of the w!,"rf of°M N r ei Vo P ° int , "the motion of Mi Napier, the recommendation of the Committee that the Board erect a wharf at O Neill's Point, provided the netitionera pay half cost, was deferred until n ex . meetlag, as six members were absent