O'NEILL'S POINT WHARF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13725, 15 April 1908, Page 7

O'NEILL'S POINT WHARF.

HARBOUR BOARD'S DECISION. "A GOOD BUSINESS DEAL." At yesterday's meeting of the Harbour Board, Mr. W. J. Napier, in speaking of tlie proposed new wharf at O'Neill's Point, which is estimated to cost £1400, remarked that the original proposition was that the Board should contribute £2000 for the dredging of the channel, provided that the residents erected a wharf and an approach. That was about four years ago, -when the residents to be served only included those in the immediate vicinity of Lake Road. Now the conditions were entirely changed, and a sum of £50,000 was to be expended on the new Takapuna tramway. The expenditure of this large sum of money would greatly enhance the Board's estate in the vicinity. He moved " That upon the residents of the district contributing £500, the Board will make the necessary wharf, and do the necessary dredging for the ferry boats." That was only fair, he thought, and on the- other hand, it would be a very good business deal for the Board. Obviously if they could get a company to spend £50,000 in connecting Auckland and other district* with their lands, it would be a very good thing for the Board. From investigations he had made he learned that the Board held 868 acres of land dry a little beyond half-tide, -which would, when the ferry was running, be within a few minutes' steam of Queen-street Wharf. Mr. C. C. Diicie, in seconding the proposition, said he understood that the reclamation of the Board's area would only eost some £2000. The motion was carried with one dissentient.