NELSON TOWN IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.

Colonist, Issue 50, 13 April 1858, Page 3

NELSON TOWN IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.

It is proposed to form a Company, to be called the " Nelson Town Improvement Company," with a capital of thousand pounds in pounds shares, to carry out the following objects :— 1. To purchase the interest in the property of Mr. G. F. Bush, at the^bottpm of Trafalgar-street, viz., the ; Nelson Windmill and acre, two freehold acres, and good-will of four others, for the sum of pounds; one-third to be paid in cash, the remainder to be taken in shares, or the whole may be taken in shares. , , 2. To cut a channel from the mill to Green Point, so that the depth of water shall be the same ut the mill as at the point. ' 3. To attach water-power to the mill, which may work the same at all seasons, either flour, timber, or flax. , . •

4. To effectually drain the town by means of the channel. " .

5. To reclaim waste land, and improve the town property generally. ; : . - : 6. To treat with the Government to supply a light-house by means of the mill. Reasons for the formation of a Company. 1. Water-power at mill capable of supplying four times the want of the colony. 2. The channel will bi'ing the port to the town, a^hd concentrate the town, and thereby add a considerable value to the property of Trafalgar, Bridge, Hardy, Halifax, and Collingwood streets. 3. Coast steamer will be enabled to pass up to the principal street of the town at half-tides. 4. Motueka, Massacre Bay, Waithoi, Queen Charlotte's Sound, and other coast settlements will be more closely attached to Nelson by the greater facilities of getting supplied and discharging cargo. 5. Greater despatch of vessels generally by the greater facility of shipping minerals and produce. 6. Carriage of timber and produce from Waimea, Motueka, Massacre Bay, and other coast settlements, reduced one-third. :

7. A channel should also be cut at Waimea. 8. Savings in repairs of Waimea and Haven roads.

9. Saving of merchants' time.

, 10. Most effectual means of draining town and reclaiming land. * ' * ' 11. Increased value of Company's property. 12. Water a ship with one hundred tons of water at one tide; at present takes eight or ten days.

13. Mail bags brought direct to town. 14. Cartage to beach, 6s. per load ; boating, ss. per ton. 15. Import and export eight or ten thousand tons per year. 16. The Company's property will form a general depot for commerce. 17. The coast steamer may leave Nelson at halftide, go to Waitnea and Motueka, return the same day, bring in or take but a vessel. 18. It is presumed, should the Government thiiik favorably of the drainage and light-house, that a sura may reasonably be expected from the Government mn-e than sufficient to pay the interest, of the expenditure. 19. An illuminated clock may be erected, lighted from the light by reflectors. 20. Baths may at a future time be erected.

To the Editor of the Colonist,

Sik, —Few things have given me (and I dare say the generality of the public) greater pleasure than "Improvement's" letter in the Examiner of Saturday last, alluding to a canal from the town to the port, the great advantages of which no one for a moment can doubt, in reclaiming property, private as well as public; and last, but not least, the sewage of the town. A scheme of this kind was proposed a considerable time back by Dr. Bush. Plans, surveys, and levels were made at the time by different surveyors, but the public were not sufficiently awake to their interest to take the thing in nand. I trust you will keep this subject open before us, and you shall hear further from ; Yours, FIDE. Nelson, April 12;