TAURANGA HARBOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18471, 7 August 1923, Page 9

TAURANGA HARBOUR.

, »» I ■ AFFAIRS OF THE BOARD. [BT telegraph.—own ; COBBESPONDENT ] r ■'' TAURANGA, Monday. A meeting of , the Tauranga Harbour Board was held to-day. ■' The clerk to the Telephone Committee at Katikati wrote regarding the proposed telephonic communication between Matakana Island and Katikati. A cable would be required at the channel between the island and Matahui Point, and the remainder of the line could be carried by poles across the present ..ford without interfering with craft. The permission ;of , the board was asked. The board decided to reply that the plan must" be submitted to the Marine Department, and that the board will give its consent provided thatthe work causes no obstruction to navigation. ' '.„..', ''' "■■■', ■■.'■'■^.': Mr. F. S. Dyson, district engineer to the Public Works Department, wrote stating that he could not give, a definite reply to the board's query regarding prospective ■ . wharfage accommodation at Maunganui, as the matter is now being referred to the head office. It would, however, greatly' assist the department to make its arrangements if it could he definitely known by what date the Railway Wharf at Tauranga will be ' available. There wil] be considerable added cost to .the working of the line if the department is forced to run passengers to one station and goods to another. Mr. Dyson also stated that the department intends to move the board's office . along the present wharf. 'He stated that all the land between the railway line and the Strand is being taken for railway works, but no decision has yet been come to' with regard to any reclamation between the south of the Strand and Elizabeth Street. ;It had been arranged that the department would see that a low level road was built between the Strand and the railway station, on condition that; the Borough Council gives a certain portion of an endowment!) The board .decided- to ... reply : that ,it| cannot entertain the cost of any portion> of the filling : between - the main H railway! line and the wharf, which is to become! a portion of the proposed low level road' to the railway station, and that •': replies ; to the other que'st?ons be deferred until \ Mr. Blair Mason visits Tauranga and con-1 suits with the board. ■ I