MUNICIPAL ELECTORS' ASSOCIATION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 5, 5 July 1913, Page 6

MUNICIPAL ELECTORS' ASSOCIATION

Te Aro Railway Station will be debated by the Greater Wellington Municipal Electors' Association on Monday next. The subjects will be that it is in the best interests of the city — "(1) That tile Te Aro Railway Station should have accommodation for goods traffic, and also that the passenger service should be extended ; (2) that the Railway Department and the Harbour Board should at once make provision whereby the railway passenger can be transferred direct from the train to the ferry steamers, viz., at the proposed Te Aro Wharf." Mr. Leigh Hunt will take up the affirmative, and Messrs. H. H. Cornish and 0. C. Mazengarb the negative.

Mr. Leslie H. Reynolds, consulting engineer to the Wairoa Harbour Board, left last night for Napier, en route to Wellington, states a Wairoa Press Association message. From there he proceeds to Okarito to tapkle the question of designing dredges, and to investigate the Five Mile Beach, for which a company has been formed to recover gold. While at Wairoa, Mr. Reynolds was a witness of the effect of the scour on the Wairoa Bar, it having just been cut. He finds a remarkable weakening in the shingle spit, predicting its total disappearance as the works advance seawards. "Were the Maori antiquities presented by the Maoris to Captain Halsey and officers of H.M.S. New Zealand first offered to the Government for sale, as is set out in the Tourist Guide Book?" is a question put to The Post by a correspondent in Wellington. The Department of Internal Affairs, when asked to throw some light on the matter, states that the Natives did not first offer the relics to tho Government,