MOTUEKA HARBOUR BOARD.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13998, 31 January 1916, Page 3

MOTUEKA HARBOUR BOARD.

QUESTION OF LEASE OF SECTION

WHARF FOll MOUTERE LAGOON SOUTH.

Tlie monthly meeting of the Motueka Harbuur Board was held on Thursday.

I The wharfinger reported that in his opinion the new channel was very satisfactory, and should :be fairly easy to navigate 0:1 cither flood or ebb tide. Of course, there might be times when captains wculci need to be careful, but. only at spring tides, and alter paying, -several visits should not ex~ preieuce any trouble, even at spring tides. He did rot think that any silting whatever had taken place in the channel below the wharf, judging from the depths the engineer of the dredge had given him and th© soundings taken. In fact, if anything, it had deepened. Messrs "Easton and Nicholson^ solicitors, wrote stating that following tiho conversation with the chairman they had to Advise, that the proceedings at the last meeting of the Board in reference to the acceptance of the* Moutere Fruitgrowers' lender for lease of a harbour section, the tender having been increased in the room, were wholly invalid, and that, particularly, by rea son of the statement published during the time tenders were called, to the effect that the section of land was being reserved by the Board for the Moutere.Fruitgrowers, Ltd. The Board should remedy th© mistake made by commencing proceedings de novo, Jn ye-adrertising this section for public tender, and calling for fresh tenders. The solicitors again pointed out that thcr Board need not necessarily accept any tender; and if no tender was accepted ills Board might at any time within twelve months after the last day for the delivery of tenders, sell the ■«aid section on lease by private contract at a vent not less than the upset rer.t at which die lease was offered. It would also be advisable, said the opinion, to insert the upset rental of the •seo-lvHis advertised ir. thio advertisement. Should the Board, however, accept any tender, it Imlst.be the highest. The Board went into conimittei>, on the motion of the-chairman and-..Mr. Everett, to consider puestions-rsepeet-ing the lea^e of section. No. 2, ' ior which tenders were received at" the last meeting of the Board, and other, matUpon resuming, it was resolved, on the motion of Messrs Everett and * ry, that -tho aiplication of the Moutert? FraiWrowers. Ltd.,. for leave' to withdr.a,w their offer for No. 2 section he acceded to and that no tender by accepted ; also that fresh, tenders. be called for this section, , '. !Vb Jan;e>3 Campbell, on behalf of settlers nVTasman and Moutere Inlet., wrote siatihg that at a representative meeting of S-'ttlers the following, resolution was unanimously earned.— "That'the Tasman and Moittere Inlet I settlers call upon tho Motueka Harbour Board to erect :a,wharf at the southern entrance lo the Lagoon, suit-: ffi» for the Anchor Shipping Com- j pany'? boats making it a regular port Kail the Miid wharf to be erected .in the settle^ ? hyp their, +1^ suh-conin-itto-e be empowered to nrocefed fvrther with the proi«* ,oi irecS- a wluuf at Mdutcre Lagoon sout • and that the secretary of tM TVipnn Frm\ Lands bo informed that 'fJeon as the Motueka harbour works Sr, completed tho Board will proceed I ?Im>Si Sclav to give -wharf accommo?uXat^louwre Lagoon south .for shinpia- prod-u-o by the <be S mmng ot unless imioreLcen circumstances a7h: Hudson r-voposed, 'seconded by Mr TTold-uvav, and it was agreed to, that (ho •en'Vnerr he instructed, when dis-; S^ n & the old wharf, to set as.de ;uitablAi;ul*r for the Prosed wharf at Moutere Lagoon south.— btai.