THAT CHRISTMAS FEELING

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 147, 18 December 1924, Page 11

THAT CHRISTMAS FEELING

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF BOARD BUSINESS.

At the conclusion of the 'formal business of the Harbour Board's final meeting of the year last evening members of the board, and executive officers met round the table in less formal fashion to discuss and extend to each other those pleasant and kindly wishes peculiar to Christmastide.

The chairman (Mr. G. "Mitchell) paid a warm tribute to all those who had assisted, in capacities high or low, in achieving a standard of efficiency higher than ever before in the history of the board. Certtiinly the standard was much improved on that of 1914, and to-day the standard of service given. was higher than anywhere else in the Southern Hemisphere. That was due to the loyal work of an excellent staff, and officers, from the board's genial general manager down,to the last boy to join the board's staff. He believed that Wellington was on the eve of a period of development greater than any in the previous life of the city and port; when the works in hand and the projected railway works were completed Wellington would bound ahead, acd a period of prosperity never before would begin. Wellington, in port and city, owed a very great deal to those, now gone before, who had guided the policy and progress of the board. Speaking of past and future policies, Mr. J. G. Harkness said that he believed that a work which should be taken in hand at an early date was the reclaiming of the ar»a of 120 acres at the head of Evans Biy. The reclaimed Jand would form a \3ry valuable industrial area and would W revenue-produc-ing as soon as the -work was completed Another work which he thought should bo put in hand was the" building of a wall in order that the inner anchorage already n splendid arm of a splenuid natural harbour, would bo protected from all the winds that blew. A toast list was enthusiastically honoured, "The King," "The Staff," "The Chairman," "Members of the Board " and 'The' Press."