HARBOUR BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue XXXXIII, 22 April 1901, Page 2

HARBOUR BOARD.

(CONTINUED.) Accounts amounting i. O £8564 13s 10 i were passa.l including the baiatice of £Bl7 on tlw wharf contract of whioh £612 is to be h«hi over for a mon'h after comp'e'ion cf contract. Tho Chairman ptated that thnre was a quantity of iiou bark timber left over on the wharf be!onginw to the contractors and available for use of bracing piles, etc. It was decided to talw over the samo at 29s per 100 feet also one pile prepared for driving at £l4. The Chairman brought up the question of tbe pile driving gear in use at th-i wharf, which he siid belonged t) Mbs'tb Berry andKewroao, He pointed out "that it wag for tbe Board to have thie gear. It was decided tint tbe apparatus should be acquired for £2O. On the motion of the Chairman it was decided to print an extra sheet to ba pasted in the p*mph!ots ri-cntly issued and 'o cob tain the names of tho members of t.-ie Board and its office™, j The Chairman reported the result; of j tbe interview which he and Sir.' Con-; net j had with the Minister of Railways I at Wellington relative to the ramovat j ths huge stones from the quarry. (This! has already baen published in thai Daily News). Ho expressed, much satisfaction at tbe admis-ion made by • the Minidtn- as to tbe jus"i«j of the-' Board's complaint as evidenced by t''e promise to make good tho ixwui oi' stme t.kcn ;n so-m an tho lino t« Mount Egmont was m do. On the m tion of Mr. R If-, the ; raembfirs of tho deputation wa'a tbankoii forth, ir HO'vi'-es, their acriou ' conflrmeJ, and their sxponeos ordered ' to be paid,