TIMARU HARBOR BOARD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2216, 18 June 1891, Page 2

TIMARU HARBOR BOARD.

The monthly meeting of the Timaru Harbor Board was held yesterday. Present —Messrs B. Aoton (ohairman), J. Hill, Gh Stumbles, F. B. Flatman, J. Wilson, L L. Morris, J. S. Gibson, J. Manchester, and Captain Woollcombe.

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Correspondence was read as follows : From the Marine Department asking if the board had any obieotion to the reports of the Shingle Commissions being laid before Parliament.—Beply in the negative. Mr Hill and Mr Flatman were inolined to dissent, at the last report was damaging to the prospects of furthur works being permitted, through the remarks on the northern beaoh. From Mr Prieatman, advising shipment of two grab shells by the Morayshire. The chairman stated that the Customs now claimed a duty of 25 per oent on dredges and parts of dredges, and the department had been oommunioated with. The oorreipondenoe was read but the final reply of the Customs seoretary ws.s not yet to hand. From Mr J. Welman reporting that he had interviewed Messrs B. Wilson and 0. Napier Bell at Ohristohurcb regarding the shingle shifting. Fram the tf.M. and A. Company asking for leave to ereot a small store far gear for working the Union steamers on the beach.-—-(granted by the committee. From Messrs Beid and McLean, Dunedin agents of the s,s. Bayley, respecting a charge of £5 for taking off the captain to the steamer in ths roadstead, paying it under protest as - excessive.—The chairman oxplained that the tug had to be employed, and was kept waiting several hours. k Mr MoLaren for N.M. and A. Co, respecting the reasons why their chartered chip Hinemos, 2200 tons, did not come to Timaru to pick up mutton, eho was too big. A steamer of the tame size V7as different, as sha could got away whero a Bhip of 2000 tons V would be quito helpless." Members supposed the owner and the ohartering agents were not awaro that the board possessed such & powerful tux as the • Manv And in was resolved 'o cfleu to pay tho travelling expenses of the>oaptaiu of the Hinemoa if he pleases to visit Tiinaiu. Messva Parry Perry acd Kiunerney, the board's solicitors, submitted a long opinion on the board's dispute with the fiuilway Commissioners respecting tha reclaimed land. The opinion was decidedly that the board have all the facta, law and qualities on tbeir side, end that the t'oainussioners oould be.prcvontei by injamotion dealing as thoy proposed with the reoiain'ition. It was uuanimoutly resolved tint the proposal of tho Bailway Ccmuaiaiionera for a settlement of the dispute re foreshore be declined, and that the Standing Committee, aoting on the advice of tho solicitor*, be authorised to take any Btepj they may deem necessary to enforoa compliance with the y original agreement made with tho JTublio T Works Dapartmeot. Mr Fiatmun asked whether the tipping of olay on the shingle was judioiou?, and it was agroed that the engineer should report on the subject. _ t The harboin-aster reported tho arrivil of \ 30 steam and 5 sailing vessels during May, * of a totil registered tonnage of 14,475, and a total of departures rather larger. Ho urged upon the board the desirability of providing more shelter; this being all the moro necessary as we are likoly to havo * larger olasa of vessels in the near future. Mr Hill: What does tie mean by "more shelter"? The ohairnnn : He wants everything j we all want eyerything j but we cannot get it.— [Mr Gibson: Gates auress the cntranoe].— So doubt ho would wish to have the range reduced, and also to have more wharfage by the north wall, and many other things, and the board wsuld Oa willing to do these things if they had the money to do it with. Mr Flotmm : If we had a wharf by tbe north wall the Hinemoa would have had n» doubt about corn in i here. ! The engineer reported as follows :—Sines last meeting we have had somo heavy seas which broke up part of the railway on the breakwater curve, together with some of the i oonorete surrounding the sleepers ; in doing so the gas pipe whioh supplies the entrance light was dislodged aad the light extinguished. The light was immediately restored by an oil lamp, and the gas connection has sinoe been made good. ~"~~ THB BHINGLB QTJHBTIOir. The standing committee reported re Messrs Perry & Perry's opinion with regard to the dispute with the railway commissioners and other matters, after which the report , submitted by Messrs Wilson and Napier Bell V on the shingle question was read. The re- ( port is too long ior publication in this issue. It practically bears out the report of Mr O'Connor, and hss scarcely anything new in it. It reoommends the removal of the shingle in tbe same way as Messrs O'Oonnor and (joodall did.