TIMARU HARBOUR BOARD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12589, 26 August 1901, Page 6

TIMARU HARBOUR BOARD.

: 'TSm Titnam Harbour" Board bold its moutito' "WMfei'ng oa Friday, tux the memban baag present. The Chairman stated that ike receipts for the month -were £5464 16« 3d, moludicg £957 14b XOd of kAm> vote. He reported that the ship Otfagv*, -with piles ami other timber for tj» staging hod been driven to iwAkwi by a and w under reugb. She might be down in about a mvitlx ' Fortunately they had been able te borrow a. dozen piles from Westport, «wl tfMM would keep them going for two ,0g tibeee weeks. Some piles shut out of the *hip were being sent by steamer, and be to hand soon. There had been » good deal of bad weather during the mnnth, and a considerable amount of lud bean done to the outer arm stae breakwater, but this was being «ogati.v«ly repaired with quarry stone. They were hampered at 'the quarry, for mnt of rails. Bails ordered from Home W only just been shipped, and inquiries about the colony for a temporary supply had so bee been ineffectual. A petition, prepared by the Waimate Borough, to be presented to Parliament against the Board’s rating district, and also a counter-petition prepared by the Board’s contradicting a number of alleged therein were read. It was resolved to appoint canvassers to take the counter petition round the Waixnate district for signature, and the Chairman, was authorised to go to Wellington in the" interests of the Bill, accompanied; by the Secretary, if his health permits, and if not, by Mr Macintosh, mayor of Thnaru. A quantity of routine correspondence was read and dealt with. On the recommendation of the Standing Committee the tender of W. A. Ryan and Co. was accepted for building and delivering a 42ib oil launch, at £7OO, and a vote of £6 made to the Sailors’ Best. The Foreman of Works, Mr P. Bradley, reported on improvements made in the facilities for quarrying since last meeting, including a deviation of the main line through a cutting 3i chains long and 26ft deep, clearing 'the face of a new quarry with stone 21ft to 27fb thick, 32 chwns of formation work and 20 chains of rails and ballast laid towards it, andl the raising of Cemetery Road Bridge to allow larger stones to pass beneath it. The mole staging was now oUb 360 ft, and the total amount of. stone delivered l to date was 29,067 tons. Since the last meeting, 21 working days, an average of 260 tons per day had been delivered. He recommended that the Samson crane, being no longer remrired at the breakwater, should) be shifted to the quarry and made use of there. The Chairman and Mr Macintosh highly praised the practical manner in which Mr Bradley was managing the quarry work, while Mr Pringle criticised the blasting as not so efficient in loosening stone as it ought :to be. About thirty applications were received for the post of resident engineer, and they were referred to a committee to examine and report to a special meeting, on Oct. 6. To the same iieesmittee were referred tenders for supply Of timber, and the question of raising the interest offered on the loan debentures from 4 to per cent. Accounts amounting to £2614 were passed for payment.