WEILL'S POINT WHARF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13781, 20 June 1908, Page 7

WEILL'S POINT WHARF.

A LARGER STRUCTURE .WANTED. - -' " . . , .* .HARBOUR BOARD DISCUSSION. '\At yesterday's meeting of the Harbour "Board in committee the engineer reported '.in -regard to O'Neill's Point Wharf that ho'estimate was £1400 for a jetty 10ft wide. " By putting in longer walings, a width of 18ft could be obtained, without increasing the number of piles. v "Owing to this," ho continued, "and the 'fact that we have not the timber, the cost of -the wharf will not be less than £2000. I understand there is a strong feeling in favour. of making the wharf sufficiently strong and wide to stand tramcars for the whole length. If this is adopted, the structure will have to be more substantial. The cost of a wharf 24ft wide", built of hardwood, to cany trains, would be £3500, not •including the cost of the rails." Mr. A. J. Entrican thought the Board should adhere to the definite arrangement it had made with the company. Mr. Macfarlane said the question was Iteimply one of ways and means, and one hof whether the other people were prepared to pay mote. If so, ho. would be in ' favour of granting them increased facilities. Mr. Glover said the Board should do the 'best it could to promote the interests of <the outlying districts. Mr. Napier said a question of policy was involved. He was always opposed to granting private rights over wharves, and the suggestion that the trains should rim down this jetty would certainly interfere, if earned out, with public rights. It ,would be no great hardship to make .people walk, some 600 ft to' the end of this wharf to catch their trams. The position, he thought, was that Mr. Entrican had proposed that £700 should bo contributed by the people interested, and, then, after several amendments, he (Mr. Napier) had given notice of motion that upon the residents contributing £500 the Board should erect the necessary accommodation, and do the necessary dredging for the ferry steamers. He was opposed to a £3000 wharf lor the trams. His notice of motion had been discussed bv the Board, and finally carried. Mr. Entrican: It was an amendment. Mr. Napier: It was not. -Mr. Entrican: It was. It came up before the Board on the recommendation of *.he Board in committee. Mr. Keyes subsequently moved : " That the engineer be instructed to proceed with the erection of the wharf at £1400," to use the necessary new timber he requires in the structure." Mr. Heather: Do I understand that the Board agreed to erect the wharf without any limit to the price'.' The Chairman (Mr. Basley): There was 3to limit 1 fixed. Mr.' Bradney said he knew the people flvho required the wharf wero quite satislied with what the Board intended doing, ; ml he thought it would be time to go into the question of a wider wharf when necessity . required. The motion was carried.