MEETINGS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 769, 26 November 1886, Page 9

MEETINGS.

WELLINGTON CITY COUNCILAn ordinary meeting of the City Council was held last evening week. Present—The Mayor and Councillors Danks, Williams, Brandon, Petherick, Quick, McKenzie, Coombe, Edwards, and Richardson. lane’s case. John Lane’s application for a fresh cab license was referred to the Public Works Committee. PIRIE-STREET RETAINING WALL. A letter was received from Messrs Fitzherbert and Divine on bebalf of Mr R. P. Collins and others, calling on the City Council to carry out its agreement with reference to this work. On the motion of Councillor Petherick, the matter was referred to the Public Works Committee. SPECIAL BURGESS ROLL. The Mayor said a special burgess roll would be necessary for the Mayoral election, and a new roll was accordingly authorised. SPECIAL MEETING. It was decided to hold a special meeting on the 24th November, for the election of members of Charitable Aid Boards. INDENTING ROAD ROLLER. Tenders for this work were referred to the Public Works Committee. ' MESSRS KITCHEN AND SONS’ WORKS. This Committee’s report (already published) was read. Councillor Petherick, in the absence of Councillor Young (Chairman of the Committee), moved the postponement of the matter for two weeks. Subsequently, at the Mayor’s suggestion, he moved that the report be referred back to the Committee. This was carried. In reference to this matter, Mr Howell waited on the Council, and asked them to make the smoke stack 40ft high, which would obviate the nuisance. CEMETER Y COMMIT I BE. The Committee recommended that, as they had not been able to get a title to the site that had been considered available, tenders should be invited for a 50-acre site suitable for a eemetery. [The Mayor made some remarks on this matter which were inaudible at the reporters’ table in consequence of the din going on at the table. J Councillor Danka moved that it should be “20 acres” instead of 44 50 acres.” This, not being seconded, lapsed, and the report was adopted.

HARBOR BOARD COMMITTEE. The Mayor suggested that as this Committe’s report had not been circulated any time, consideration of it should be postponed either for a fortnight or for a special meeting.

Councillor Quick (Chairman) agreed that the matter was of sufficient gravity for such a course, and moved that the report be con. sidered at a special meeting of the Council to be held on Tuesday next. This was carried. The report of the Committee was a long one. It recommended the adoption of an agreement in the following form, and that the report should be forwarded to the Harbor Board for approval : —An agreement made the day of 1886, between the Mayor, Councillors and citizens of the city of Wellington, incorporated under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,” herein called 44 the Corporation ” of the one part, and the Wellington Harbor Board, constituted and incorporated under “The Wellington Harbor Board Act, 1879,” herein called “the Harbor Board ” of the other part. Whereas by grant from the Crown bearing date the 24th day of Jnne, 1874, certain lands below high water mark forming part of the Harbor of Wellington were granted to the Corporation. And whereas by the Te Aro Reclamation Act, 1879, power was granted to the Corporation to reclaim the said lands ineluded in the said grant ; and whereas the Corporation have reclaimed part of the said lands, and intend to carry out further reclamation and works, and have contemplated carrying such works so far into the said harbor that the face-line thereof along the sea front should be the line marked “ City Council face-line ” on the plan annexed hereto ; and whereas the said Harbor Board has represented to the Corporation that it would be injurious to the harbor if the reclamation works were carried out further than to the line marked “ Proposed Harbor Board face-line ” on the said plan annexed hereto hereinafter called the “Agreed line';” and whereas by the Wellington Queen’s Wharf and Store Sales Act, 1881, it was enacted that the Corporation might sell to the Harbor Board the Queen’s Wharf, and other properties named in the said Act, for the sum of £64,000, whereof the sum of £25,000 should be paid to the Corporation within three calendar months after the passing of the said Act, and the sum of £39,000, being the balance thereof, should be paid on the 28th day of February. 1907, with interest thereon in the meantime till payment at the rate of six pounds per centum per annum, by equal half-yearly payments ; and it was provided that the money to be paid to the Corporation by the Harbor Board should be applied in reduction of the municipal debt, and not otherwise. And whereas for the purpose of considering the representations made by the Harbor Board as aforesaid, to the effect that the proposed works, if carried out to the Corporation line, would’be injurious to the port and therefore to the interests of the citizens of Wellington, the City Council of the Corporation met the members of the Harbor Board at a conference on the sth day of October, 1886, when it was agreed that, in consideration of the Harbor Board undertaking the duties and obligations on its part hereinafter expressed, the Corporation should agree to carry out its reclamation works only so far as the said agreed line, and should surrender its right under the grant of all lands to the seaward of the said agreed line, and that both the Corporation and Harbor Board should support an Act to be introduced into Parliament to enable the parties to. give effect to the arrangement arrived at. And whereas it is desirable that the terms of the said arrangement should be set as precisely as oossible, and for that purpose it has been agreed that these presents shall be executed: Now these presents witness and it is hereby agreed and declared by and between Ithe parties hereto as follows : 1. The Corporation will not carry out its reclamation works beyond the said agreed line shown on the plan annexed, as the proposed Harbor Board face-line, without the consent of the Harbor Beard, except as provided in clause 6. 2. The said agreed line starts from a point on the Queen’s Wharf, distant sixty-six feet from the western side of the inner south Tee of the wharf, and runs thence toward Cuba-street, on the line known as the 12 feet Corporation line, thence trends into the line known ns 'the. 8 feet Marine Engineer’s line (150 feet within the Corporation line), and continues along that line to a point half-way between Taranakistreet and Tory-street, and thence trends outward to meet the said 12 feet Corporation line near the junction of the line of Alien-street (produced) with that line. 3. The Corporation will, with all convenient speed, after legislative authority as herein* after mentioned shall have been obtained, commence and carry out, np to the said agreed line, the reclamation works between the Queen’s Wharf and Taranaki-street. The Corporation agrees that the plans and specifications for the face of the reclamation on the sea line shall be first approved by the Engineer to the Harbor Board before tenders are called for. The Harbor Board sb all take over and maintain the sea wall after its construction. 4. The Harbor Board shall pay the sum of £39,000 to the Corporation for the construction of the reclamation works mentioned in clause 3 hereof as soon as the legislative authority as hereinafter mentioned shall have been obtained. The Harbor Board shall, from the date of such paynaent until the 28th day of February, 1907, pay to the Corporation annually the sum of £585, being interest on the said principal sum at the rate of 1J per cent, per annum. 5. alternate tenders shall be called by the Corporation for its reclamation commencing the work from the Queen’s Wharf end, and permitting the quay or staging to be erected a 3 the work proceeds ; and in the other case for commencing from the extremity of the reclamation for which tenders are called. And the City Council shall select and approve a tender (not necessarily the lowest) for each description of work ; and the Harbor Board shall have the right to insist upon the approved tender for commencing at the Queen’s Wharf end being accepted by the City Council on paying to the Corporation the excess (if any) of the price named in such tender over the price named in the said other approved tender. 6. The right is hereby reserved to the Corporation from time to time to lease to the Star Boating Club and to the Wellington Rowing Club, or any other rowing club, for any terms not exceeding 21 years, and at such rents as may be agreed upon between the Corporation and such lessees, sites for boat sheds at the junction of the said 12-foot Corporation line with the said 8-foot Marine Engineer’s line, at the foot of

Cnba-Btreefc (produced), not exceeding a distance of 250 ft along the said 12-foot line, and in the direction of the Queen’s. Wharf, by 60ft to seaward of it, and to give Buch clubs or any of them the right within the above limits to erect boathouses on piles driven into the bed of the harbor, or to reclaim and erect boat-houses on snch reclamation, and also to give to such clubs or any of them the right of laying (either within or without the aforesaid limits) skids and other means of launching boats, and also any right of access to and departure from such boathouses over any parts of the harbor of Wellington vested in the Corporation as for the time being are covered with water, and over such water. 7. The Harbor Board shall erect a timber quay or staging from the Queen’s Wharf as far as the sites in respect of which the Corporation has the right, as beforementioned, of granting leases to Boating Clubs, such quay or staging to be erected along the sea-wall of the reclamation, and so soon as the reclamation is completed as far as the eastern side of Taranaki-street, the Harbor Board shall construct a jetty extending out from Taranaki-street, such quay or staging and jetty to be respectively constructed according to plans and specifications to be approved by the City Council. Should the Harbor Board create aDy tenancies over, and receive rent for, any parts of the said quay or staging, one- part of the rent received shall be paid over by the Harbor Board to the Corporation. [The Harbor Board shall not create auy tenancies over, or receive any rent for any part of the said quay or staging.] 8. The Harbor Board may reclaim the inner space between the inner south tee and the agreed line for a site for a Queen’s bond, Harbor Board offices, and other buildings to be used lor the purposes of the Board on purchasing from the Corporation at the price of £ so much of the land covered with water and comprised in such spaoe as is now vested in the Corporation. 9. As soon as the reclamation is completed as far as the foot of Cuba-street (produced), the Corporation will form and metal the 100 ft street which will run along the sea wall, in order that accommodation for vessels may be available as speedily as possible at the seawall. 10. Nothing in these presents shall oblige the Corporation to expend on any works or things mentioned herein a greater sum than the said sum of £39,000, nor shall anything herein contained extend to or affect any land eovered with water now vested in the Corporation and lying eastward of the termination at the foot of Alien-street (produced) of the agreed line or the rights of the Corporation over the water covering such land. 2. This agreement is subject to and contingent upon an Act of Parliament being obtained conferring upon the Corporation and the Harbor Board, respectively, power to carry out its provisions, but both the Corporation and the Harbor Board agree to promote and support in the next session of Parliament such an Act; and in the event of there not being sufficient time to pass such an Act in the next ensuing session, then to promote and support such an Act in the session after the next, —In witness, &c. PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE’S REPORT. This Committee’s report was agreed to, with slight amendments. CITY SURVEYOR’S REPORT. This report was adopted. The Council then adjourned.