OTAGO DOCK TRUST.

Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 2

OTAGO DOCK TRUST.

The -monthly meeting of this Trust tool place last night, and was attended bf the Chairman (Mr E. G. 'Allen, M.HJI.). Meast* A. Cable, K. Knewstubb, F. G. Cray, R. Barclay, G. lr. Bcnnistori, B. Godfred. and the secretary (Mr Kettle).. The Chairman moved that the Trust place on record their deep regret on the,-, demise of Mr Hugh Gourley, and express their .-Teat appreciation of the invaluable senrices rendered by him to the Otago Dock Trust during the sixteen years he was a member thereof. Further, that this Co&mltte® tender tllS Universal Sympathy of their body towatds the sumvirig relations of the family arid that a copy of this resolution should bo Sent to the members of suae. —Carried.

—Correspondence.— A letter front Mr If. Huy, engineer to Urn Otago Dock Trust, stated that the balance of the pumping machinery liad arrived by tin) bs. Kaipara. and would be delivered next week. Ho had notified the contractors that thev would have to take delivery m accordance with their contract. They would, ho presumed* store iho plant similarly w tbn last - consignment, and have the same..insured in the totnl sum of its cost—namely. £2,015. X'urihcr, he had arranged with the Union’ Steam Ship Company regarding the •f-vcia Df land leased from the Otago Dock Trust; add desired to know what measurement they had been granted,—lt 1 was decided to leave the matter m the hands of the engineer and solicitor. . Mr Isaac Stevenson wrote asking for six weeks’ leave of absence, as it itm. his intention to leave the colony for that period. —Granted. A complaint from Mr 3v. S- Ramsay with reference lo certain items charged against live Rakiura was received. The Clerk of the Waikeuaiti Comity Council advise that, re the slaughtering license at Sawyers Bay abattoirs, the 'Trust’s request would be granted, subject to the usual conditions.—Received. —Reports.— The Finance Committed reported that accounts amounting to £1.710 14a had been parsed for payment, and that the bank pass book’s current account had a credit balance of £1,488 15s Id, while tho new- dock loan account had a credit of £5,651 6s SiAdopted. The Works Committee slated that the Committee of tho Dock Trust, lo whom the last clause of Mr Robert Hay’s report of 25th November, with reference to the berth for the caisson for the new deck had been referred, paid a visit to the proposed rile. Mr Hay was present, aV explained what he recommended should be done. After carefully considering the matter, tba Committee laid come to the conclusion that the specific alterations of the line of reclamation, as proposed by Mr Hay. should be given effect to, and the construclion of the berth for the caisson be left over for the meantime. —Adopted. The Dock. — Mr Cray referred lo the condition of the dock, and" remarked that certain repairs were urgently required. Many of the blocks needed stays. They had bad an object lesson in the canting of the Calliope Dock.—Mr De-n----niston said it was advisable to guard against any such accident as bad occurred at Auckland. —The matter was referred lo the Works Committee, with power to act.