HARBOUR BOARD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18116, 5 June 1919, Page 9

HARBOUR BOARD.

LYTTELTON. The monthly meeting of the Lyttelton jaai ooui 1 joooi'U was held yesterday; present—Air H- B. boreusen (f u<l “ man;, the Hon R. Moore, m.L.0., ’1 hacker, M.i\, and ruossrs U- fioUana, \Y. J. Walter, $. E. b*eigh, 1. Blackley, J. Blood, F. Honed, I. D. Boag add R. Giilbraith. . . j.na engineer,' in lus monthly report, Hated that working in toe outer ciiannel at Lyttelton the dredge CanterIniry lifted and pumped .into the reclamation area a quantity of 41,b0U tons. On May 8 the dredge was laid up for want of coal, and on May jv pile was docked for overhaul and to lit (H new cutting edge into the drag-head. There were indications that tlio woi k at, Timaru was more wearing on tlie pdmps, valves, pipes and hopper doors than the work at Lyttelton, so that t w ould bo necessary to make some allowance for this in next, year s charter to the Timaru ,Board. lhe 7® sse |® sides had been somewhat chaled by nibbing against the piles of the wharf, but this could be avoided next year by the Timaru Board driving _a fo".p?ing pile, at om °! .to berth. Tot the, Canterbury to lie at.. a e grab-hopper dredge Jewhaka •*« wharf for Nelson at b, 1 : and was berthed at the wharf a Nelson at 4.10 p.m. on the. following day, the trip being made at a speed a, little over eight knots diour. So commenced dredging on M« y reclamation mole at Lyttelton < raised to its full permanent height, an the outer face protected with large stones for a distance pf 1?*- ’ , , Baker’s Point. All bearing piles had been driven in connection with the renairs ’to No. 2 jetty, and the renewal of cans and- beams '"“JJJJd’i 1 complete. ,ln view of the board s revenue now becoming more normal* tliic engineer stated thnt be ranging for the wharf construction gang II bi bronght TO to it, lal ««»»»»' strength, and for this “ or( pushed on to completion as soon as Pt !The treasurer’s monthly statement of ro e pis and shipping showed thatsince the board’s last meeting the f °‘ sums had been paid into rboun ftin 1 account-:— Wharfage, £3480 Os sd, rVotage, £lll7 13s; port charges, J 21092 6s 8d; berthage £326 15s Td, towage warps, fenders and electric lig':t°cfiarges, £328 3s 6d; dock and slip dues, £B9 13s; storage and cold storage £IO4O 2s 6d; sundry receipts, £6,1155; total £9480 Os 3d, as oompared - with £6242 0s 9d during *be correspon cling period of last yearv The hour fund was m credit £2856 15. T unnaid accounts to he passed for payment amounted to 81170 17s • pavmejit of whichwouldleave the ac count in credit £l6Bo T,7s 3d. , During the month of May pS vessels, . w : th a total netjonnage or 133.2684 entered the port of Lyttelton, aa compared with 190 vessels, aggregating 114 794 tons, during the corresponding month of last year. okorq ia o od Accounts amounting to £6969 18s were passed for payment. ■ ' xne Harbour Improvement Committee reported with reference to handling , and storage charges at the boards stores that the committee had carefully considered the secretary s and warehouseman’s reports of March It, 1919, and recommended that the proposals and recommendations therein be adopted. , The committee having been given power to act; had contributed the sum of £SO towards Peace celebrations at Christchurch a™* Lyttelton respectively, a total of LIUU. The Sailors’ Horn-* Committee reportbd having passed iccounts for payi ment amounting to £76 17s, The receipts and expenditure for May were. —Receipts £BS 8s 6d, expenditure £76 • 17s. Ihe average number of men staying in the home, per day, during May was 16, the maximum, being 17 and the minimum 14 The average for May. 1418,’ was 11. . , , . The various reports were adopted. An application fiom the Lyttelton Borough Council that the board should construct a boat slip at Diamond Harhour, at the expense of that counoil, was held over. _ . c , , An application from the Union Steam Chip Company for ft renewal of its lease of "site , near No. 6 jetty was beard authorised a grant of £lO ' to the St John Ambulnncf Association on 4 a grant of £lO 10s to the British an 1 Foreign Bailors’ Society. It was decided thnt the next, ordma,.v nwering of th° hoard should he held r in Lyttelton on Wednesday, July 2, at 11 a.m.