WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 7947, 2 December 1886, Page 4

WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.

i Au or iinary meeting of the City Council was i held Thursday evening. Present—The Mayor and Councillors Banks, Williams, Brandon, I Petheriok, Quick, McKenzie, Coombe, ■, Edwards, and Richardson. HARBOR BOARD COMSHTTEE. i The Mayor suggested that as this Com- , mittee’s report had not been circulated any i time, consideration of it should be postponed ; either for a fortnight or for a special meeting, i Councillor Quick (Chairman) agreed that ; the matter was of sufficient gravity for such a i course, and moved that the report be con--l sidered at a special meeting of the Council to i be hold on Tuesday next. This was carried, i The report of the Committee was a long > one. ft recommended the adoption of an agreemeut in the following form, and that ■ the report should be forwarded to the • Harbor Board for approval : —An agreement i made the day of 1886, between the Mayor, Councillors and citizens of the i city of Wellington, incorporated under “ The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,” herein i called “the Corporation” of the one part, i 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 June, 1874, certain lands below high water mark forming part of the Harbor of Wellington were granted to the Corporation. And whereas bj the Te Are Reclamation Aot, 1879, power was granted to the Corporation to reclaim the said lands included in the said grant; and whereas the Corporation have reclaimed part of the said lands, and intend to carry out farther reclamation and works, and have contemplated carrying such works so far into the said harbor that the face-lino thereof along the sea front should bo the line marked “ City Council faco-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 “Agreedline 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 Aot, 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 ha 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 au Aot 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 possible, 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 the 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 j thence toward Cuba-street, on- the line | known as the 12 feet Corporation lino, thence > trends into the line known as the 8 feet 1

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, up to the said agreed line, the reclamstion 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 I the Engineer to the Harbor Board before I tenders are called for, TheHarborßoard shall I take over and maintain the sea wall after its construction. 4. The Harbor Board shall pay I thesumof £39,000 to the Corporation for the construction of the reclamation works mentioned in clause 3 hereof as soon as the I legislative authority as hereinafter mentioned shall have been obtained. The Harbor Board shall, from the date of such payment until ] the 28th day of February, 1907, to the 1 Corporation'annually the sum of £585, being interest on the said principal sum at the rate of per cent, per annum. 5. alternate tenders shall be called by the Corporation for its reclamation works. In one case for commencing the work from the Queen’s Wharf end, and permitting the quay or staging to be erected as 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. G. 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 leasees, 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 Cuba-street (produced), not exceeding a distance of 250 ft along the said 12-foofc line, and in the direction of the Queen’s Wharf, by 60fb to seaward of it, and to give such, 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 such 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 con. struoted according to plans and specifications to be approved by the City Council. Should the Harbor. Board create any 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 any 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 tor 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 snob space 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 snm than the said sum of £39,000, nor shall anything herein contained extend to or affect any land covered with water now vested in the Corporation and lying eastward of the termination a.t the foot of Alien-street (produced) of the agreed line or the rights of the Corporation over the water covering such laud. 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 suoh an Act in the next ensuing session, then to promote and support such an Act in the session after the next. —In witness, &o. After some other business had been disposed of, the Council adjourned.