HARBOURS CONFERENCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 247, 5 October 1911, Page 6

HARBOURS CONFERENCE

[PER I’UK-SS ASSOCIATION J

Welling! >n. Oct

Futiier business at the < otifi-i < n< < yesterday was «!t a;: with as to! lows : - 1

Seition 117 « f the Hrirfimrs A> t provides inter alia that haileni: board' ma'., on Lands legally ii'tid in them. < (instruct warehouses. -Led- <:•.. ami may lease same for a max. muni term of three years. A nn>t'»'i that the Act lie amended in the di : retion of e\tr :d.i • * .< h Ir'i'i s tel si’iiqi oars va - <d to with: pra'-ticailv no ci'. ,i"io.i. It wasnlsoi ;:gr< < d that tl» HaiLour boards Ai t he amended that !.:::-is of a harbour l> .ard adjacent to a wharf " > included in th- munition >f wharf;; that section 163 of the Act be amend j ed soas to empower aboard to acquire; i ; take under the Public Works A< i more land than was required for thei purpose of any of the objects «.f th.-; Iroard. tin board to Laie power to dispose by sale of any lands r.e.t soj required ; that section 163. -;J» »■< ti.il a. o-f the ILi’botil s Acr |»c i amended to provuie that lands for' harbour works Le taken by boards; by Onler in-l'ounei! under the pru-j visions of the Harbours Act. 1

Other remits adopted were the !«>’- l>wi::g: -That the Local Authorities Suprrnmmat ion Act be aim-riili d so that it would definitely stat e w her he l it rrf rrid only to p< rmaaent <m pi. y»es or also to employees engaged from’ day to day; that the intiipre tat ion rla'tsc "length of service” ».b r.n indire -t e ntradii ti »n to th'wording of section 22; that the Harbortrs Act be amended by providing that harbour beards shall t-'iv power to charge storage on any goods allowed to remain in any shed or on any approach thereto for. a longer term than allowed by a.

l»oard’s by laws ; that the following danse be added to section 91 (responsibility for injury to works of barljotirs) or the Harbours Art. namely "and such damages may he recovered by the board by action in nnv court < f competent jurisdiction ; that section 2‘»7. sub-section -I. which gives harbour boards power to make by-laws in regard to the levying of harbour-masters’ fees and port charges, be amended by inserting the pilotage rates referred to in the fifth schedule to the Act ; that a clause be inserted in the Act empowering harbour boards to appoint trustees to fill vacancies in the con trol of, lands set aside for sailors’ rests ; that section 3i> of the Act of 190 ft, giving power by Order-in-Coun-cil to divide rating districts into wards be reenacted : that section 12 of the Cold Duty Act. H«-. be amended to include harbour boards in the schedule of local bodies en titled to receive gold duty on all gold dredges from foreshores ard gold recovered from tailings dep-un-ited on foreshores ; that the goldfields revenue obtained frhm leases, etc., on Joreshores be paid to harbour hoards ; that provision be made for the exemption of foreshores in occupation of harbour boards from rat ing where the local body s boundary is fixed at low water mark ; that so tion 131 of the Harbours Act ’<■ amended by giving power to board; to grant foreshore licenses to L-iy down boatsheds and skids of a fi.xi d and limited size for pleasure purposes without the necessity of obtaining the approval of the Govcrn-or-in Council, provided that such licenses shall contain a provision that the board shall be entitled at any time to determine same without r .m pensatioti t > the licensee upon giving the licensee three months written notice thereof the licensee to have the right to remove structures erected by him.

TO-DAY’S PROCEEDINGS

Wellington. Oct

Tl.c Harhcuirs Conference today passed the following motion by Mr. Belcher (Otago): "That this conference is of opinion the various harbour hoards as far as possible shonl I give preference to local mainifaetiticrs in acquiring machinery for Lar

Itour pun> oses - . Speaking to the motion Mr. be. cher stated that two tenders for building the Otago hoard s new tun came from Hongkong, and at a meeting of the board he had protested against either of them being m ccpted, because he objected *•’ Asiatic or Oriental conditions .n carrying out the work. Both .tenders were much lower than those frt.m the Old Count r.'- By accepting the Port Chalmers firm’s tender the board was keeping the muaev in the I>• >

ititmottThe question of Harbour board Elections was fully discussed. On the motion of Nir. H. C. Temsley (Wellington) it was decided that the principle, one man one vote, should be followed in harbour board elections, and an elector ent it lev! to vote for blank members or different districts or classes of electors must choose which one particular right of voting he elects to exercise. It was mentioned that the total cost of last elections in the New Zealand amounted to h'ldt. as compared with £336 for the six previous elections.

The Conference decided that in respect of any harbour board election that is held simiiltaneouslv with the election of the local authority where it is necessary to hold the poll for such local election, the B.*aid shall be liable o-d. for the cost* < f ad-

vertising and printing, other than compilation -tnd printing of roil* and a sum equivalent to ten per * * nt. of the actual cost to the local au . th jrit.v » f conducting its own ami the board election aprt from the costs of adverti'iiie and printing. th the mot...n of Nr .1 <.. Huk ncss (Wellington), ’t was resolved th« 11.1 ton* fm number* of harbour board*, i ointtv < oiim d*. ro.td boards, town . .;:r., I*. l.o*p.til amt ehart’able a d b...ir..*. ami miinu :p.:. corporal ions 1... ) upon *:.e -m;.e date and at triennial interval*. The t'onft rem r al*o adopted tn> tlur motion from dilution th.it th. m*t* of tompiling rnui prutmg roll* for the harbour bo ir.i • b • t <>n bv various ’...cal author it ms within a harbour list.ri' t *’:•■;;•! be borne bv ! *;ich To-al author:till * re*peetti <-t.v.