PATEA HARBOUR BOARD.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 59, 15 May 1895, Page 2

PATEA HARBOUR BOARD.

The above Board held its regular meeting yesterday, when there were present— Messrs Deane (chairman), Balmforth, Brown, Major, C. Symes and Wilsm. Minutes of former meeting read and confirmed. Correspondence dealt with. Outwards, as authorised, inwards; from 9* Railway Traffic Manager, re delay at Government wharf of inward cargo, and stating intention to visit Patea shortly and see what can be done to expedite delivery; from T. Eytcn, **3 reductions in rent on foreshore all >t up .its; from East Boa I Board, application for gravel; Uo r . Duthie, Owl- i:ig to supply hoops and studs at £8 per ton.—Offer accepted; from Customs r ipavimeut, re preparation of export statlrtics, and stating the impossibility of re'y’ng on local statistics for the purpose of preparing colonial stat'stics; from Mrs Jo’.lie, asking consent to transfer her harbour board lease to T. Hutton.— Application granted on motion of Mr Major, seconded by Mr C. Symes. Wharfinger’s report read, rep or ling repair of roof and guttering rendered necessai y by late storm, and damage done to water supply by pigs ana goats.— Report received and adopted. Pilot reported channel and entrance good, and everything in splendid working order. Chairman repo "led having appointed Otto Lauartz to the temporary charge of the pilot station dr. ug the il aess of the pilot; Had arranged with Dickson re Heads reserve, and authorised Mr Newton to locate boundary of section no. 00 and to place iron pegs at corners. Statement of accounts read, shewing available balance of £959 17s Id.

On the motion of Mr Major, seconded by Mr Brown, it was resolved, “That Lauartz be paid ten shillings per day wtr’e acting as pilot.'* Accounts amounting to £B3 7s 7d were passed for payment. A deputation, consisting of His Worship the Mayor and Cr Adams, waited on the Board to ask for assistance "n mating the road to the Heads. His Worship intro-* diicing the subject, said he had had au es imate made of the cost, and found that about £B7 would be required to form the road right down to the river, and suggested that the Board should undertake the claying over the sand drift on their reserve. He thought the road would be a great boon to both the town and country people, and would enhance the value of the Board’s property, as well as assist the Borough in improving the approach to a really valuable health resort. Cr Adams didn t know that he eouldadd very much to what His Worship had said, except, perhaps, that by having that portion of the road clayed the Board would stop a large area of drifting sand, and he thought, apart from that, the Board should assist, as it was quite as much for the benefit of the couutiy people as to the town. The Borough Council had placed £SO on the estimates for this year for expenditure on that road, and he hoped the Board would assist them.

His Worship said he should also add that if the borough succeeded in getting this road made it was their intention to fence off sixteen feet of the centre for traffic, and plant the rest on both sides with trees and shrubs, sand grass, etc., so as to make a pleasant walk or drive, Mr Major (Harbour Board) thought it was a very laudable desire on the part of the Patea people, in which they deserved every assistance, and he would move that the Board subsidise the borough to the extent of ten shillings in the £. up to £BO for the purpose of forming that road.” Consiclaiv.ble conversational discusssion took pla?a or the question, and eventually Mr I'l'i. o;’s motion was altered to read as f o c ws:—“ That this Board con*« tribute L 27 U ; towards the cost of the Heads re ~ p-ov’ded the borough spends £BO on tc e . 3 : oad this year, the sum of £27 IQs tofc ai put of the £80.” This was carried ix in'mously, and the Board adjourned.