TAURANGA AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19454, 9 October 1926, Page 14

TAURANGA AFFAIRS.

I 'HARBOUR BOARD ACTIVITIES. | COUNTY ENGINEER'S DEPARTURE. I [BY TKI.EGi'.APH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TAURANGA. Friday. A meeting of the Tauranga Harbour j Board was held yesterday, Mr. Donald j Grant presiding. The board decided, on the recommendation of the engineers, to instal a new pile beacon with a red flashing light opposite Whareroa Point. The secretary submitted a report on the Matakana plantation, showing that an area of 80 acres is covered with ! nearly 100,000 trees. The total area j owned by the board on the island is | 428 acres. The total capital cost of | land and four years' planting is £looo'. i The board adopted a motion authorising the engineers, Messrs. Blair Mason, Leo and Brown, to inake a resurvey of that portion of the harbour southward and westward of Panepane Point; also the channel from Stoney Point to the Stella Channel. The treasurer reported that the revenue for the nine months ended Sptember 30 amounted to £5099, compared with £4794 for the corresponding I period of last year. The chairman's report slated that eight substantial j beacons had been erected in the channel between Katikati and Stella Channel. A number of leading town and county residents assembled yesterday to meet Mr. A. A. Woodward who, after nearly three years as. engineer to the Tauranga County Council, has resigned to accept the position of engineer to the Waikato County Council. He was presented with a suitable memento from his Tauranga friends. At the County Council office this morning Mr. Woodward was presented by Mr. A. H. P. Briasco (county clerk) with a gift on behalf of. the staff. 'J'lio winner of the. bogey competition for lady golf players, for .the secretary's trophy," was Miss P. Cramer Roberts.