TE ARO GOODS SHED.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 102, 1 May 1894, Page 3

TE ARO GOODS SHED.

The Harbour Board met this afternoon, to consider the letter from Under- Seoretary for Public Works, relating to the Te Aro Goods Station Reclamation, already published. Thero wore presont— Mefsra J. Jack (Chairman), Gale, Petheriek, Pearce, Brown, Heaton, Fraser, Captain Rose, and His Worship the Mayor. The correspondence and tha reply of, the City Council wore read. Mr. Brown said the letter simply meant that tho Premier was attempting to foist the unemployed on tho City Council and the Harbour Board. If ho wanted to find work for the unemployed he could easily push on the North Island Trunk .Railway, or ho conld, in the Hutt County, m»ke the important road through to Waikanao. There were plenty of other works of equal urgenoy and importance. He moved — " That the Board approves of th report of tho former conference of committees from the Harbour Board and City Council, and adheres to the opinions cxprcssod therein, and that a reply be sont to the Under-Secretary for Fublio Works." Captain Rose, in seconding tho motion, said tho question of the unemployed and the goods shed had nothing to do with each other. The Board had quite enongh to do in managing 'tho affaird of the port without having the unemployed foisted on them. Mr. Petherick complained of tho Government not paying compensation for the street* taken for the railway, and of attempts on behalf of the Government to tuko the reserves. Mr. Heaton contended that the portion whioh it was proposed to reclaim did not affect the Harbour Board. It would provide * great deal of work to have the reclamation done now, and there w»s no doubt a goods station was required at Te Aro. Pressure had been brought to bear by the local bodies to prevent this reclamation being done. Mr. Fraser said the Harbour Board had nothing to do with this particular reclamation. The City Counoil had. He considered, however, that a goods station was wanted at Te Aro. In reply to Mr. Gale and Captain Rose, tho Seorotary, Mr. Ferguson, said that by an agreement ratified by Parliament, between the Board and City Council, the Council had bound itself to carry two streets through the Reclamation, so as to give aoceßß to sites for wharves and 'to the dooks site, and it had to leave the foroshoro unoccupied for industries roquiring sea frontage. Mr Blaokett arranged Te Aro Station plans so as to be in the middle of the street —have the street on each side— and so preserve access to the dock sito, but the Government had altered this and built the station to tho seaward of the street, and the consequence was that there was no access to tho dock site. It bad also taken off 35 perch.es of the length of the dook— a serious matter. If the Government reclaimed further, access would have to bo obtained by the Corporation putting a street outside tho reclamation, and that would so cut off the sections m to leave them too Bhort for practical purposes. The motion was carried by 7 to 2 (Messrs. Fraser and Heaton), and the meeting closed.