HARBOUR BOARD.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17807, 5 July 1923, Page 7

HARBOUR BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. The Lyttelton Harbour Board met at Lyttelton yesterday. Present— Messrs F. Horrell (chairman)., W. K. McAlpine, H. Holland, H. J. Miller, W. J. Walter, R. Galbraith, G. Scott, R. Macartney, T. A. Blackley, and Captain H. Monro. The treasurer's statement showed that the receipts for the month, of June were £6770 13s Bd, as compared with £11,334 Is 7d for June, 1922, which did not, of course,' include hire of electric cranes, but included £2982 126; 6d harbour improvement rate, which was then in force.

The Finance Committee reported a3 follows:—(a) Your Committee carefully considered the whole question of donations and grants payable out of "unauthorised expenditure," under the Public Revenues Act, 15)10, and Amendment, 1922, and recommend that each application be considered on its merits, (b) Application from British and Foreign Sailors' Society for a grant of £'s. Your Committee recommends that this society be granted £SO for the current year, (c) Application from Workers' Educational Association for a grant of £25 for the current year. Your Committee has deferred consideration of this application until receipt of the Associatipn's last annual balancesheet.

The report was adopted. The Finance Committee also reported that it had carefully considered the matter of salary, overtime, allowances to the masters of the Board's three vessels, and recommended that the salaries pf. the sailing master of the dredge Canterbury, the master of the dredge Tewhaka. and the master of the tug Lyttelton be increased to £430 per annum, and that payment to these officers of allowances and overtime be discontinued.

The report was adopted. The Sailors' Home Committee reported that the average number of boarders at the Home during June waji 16; the maximum being 19, and the minimum 13. The average for June, 1922, was 20. The Committee recommended that the bedrooms affected by vermin be stripped of wall-paper, treated with kerosene and turpentine, and afterwards the wall be painted as formerly. The engineer's estimate for this work was £4O. The Committee also recommended that the. billiard table in the Sailors' Home be sold, and a piano which was under offer to the Committee, be purchased. The secretary read a draft of a letter which he proposed to send to the Marine Department in connexion. with the proposal to shift the Harbour Board's signal station from Adderley Head to Godley Head. The terms of the proposed arangement were discussed at some length. Mr Macartney suggested that the Government should assist the unemploved by undertaking the construction of a suitable road to the lighthouse. Mr Blackley:-I.suggest that Mr Macartney drop : this cry:, of "unemployed." There's no unemployed, in, the country. Tiiere may be n little in the towns. The matter was held, over pending an inspection of the Godley Head site on July 19th. , „ , * The Oamarn Harbour Board wrote accepting the Lyttelton Harbour Board's term* for the hire of the dredge Canterbury, and asked tnat_tne dredse should leave Lyttelton on September 17th. The letter was received.