, AUCKLAHfB HAJ^OFR BOARD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 1350, 12 June 1907, Page 2

AUCKLAND HARBOUR BOARD.

■ -A-uckla»<£ June -H.-^-The adjournefl annual meeting of. the Auckland Ha* Lour Board w<tt HeW this afternoon fo£ tho purposd of passing accounts, iy o^bp^iea .tide chairman, Hon. E. Mitchels^n"/ said'he had again to congratulate nlenibers on .the ,atead^ i>y incrfcaSfrig revienu'e'-Hhe not income amounting to ;£BBfsß&'l3s<2d. They, had i:ioro thai%:,roa£ised .the'increaSe which was predicted when introducing the now schemo of liarbour works, and he bad no doubt bUt'jth&t Substantial iuf < reases wouM be irtaintft fried,. The tot.il rpcoipts for .1906 amqnjtltod tj> £103,409 12s 7d, as* : agaimrt, a; ? nqt qncome of 1:83,582 13s £d. The: tletfjpcomo for 1005 was $7&J96.;7 ? Jr& Wh;en.it wag considered ttiit the ineortfe of the Board i n . 1872 unr.Hf^nd ; £l 2^4^ 2s lid. »ud in l£>OjS to 24jflpnw id™ uiight be formed -of^he. increase of the ti/idfe,an&c,ommei*cd'of the port and nr the intfr6ase m'thVvalije pf .the Board's eitdownseritsv' -Tftis-'crtarbled tin© in some measure to foreseo the groat future oiiening. upTfoi^qcß&pff.f The first i*«tfo4of deberftiiJfeifcuwteriihe A«ieklan j 1 1 a rboujr &m rd, L aem - and Empoweri »ig Act or Iyu4 had been duly completed end.aU il&ftoridi'aold at pap, bearing iutere£t&£4f*per~jcent.-Thc second issue of • £100,000. at 4* ' per cent, had been disposed .qft jfuid the third issue of £10Q,00Q. atlf? jffic cent, had been arrange4;^oji,, 2SMHPPO $feinlg payajble on July 10^y.l90r, agi4 the balanJfoipayablo in sums of £5000 ;mowtra or fcuch largei>suins as* Snight' be arranged up to £15,000 per nrofctft.- 'The business of the p.©«tHsras ln^reftflixg so much that the berthing Bccpmmo'dation. now available was far too limited to enable tie v ork of disoh^rgijig arid loading vessels to bfr ca-cf ied '^xtk occasional MC'CIvS. : *a ' "<•'• t: ■ .The Union 6'enJ^a'riy's cargo boat Corinna tfill ariive; 'here from Soiith

on Friday, and will proceed to Onohunga. She will return on Monday and leave for South the same day. The Rotoiti sailed frdm Onehunga at 2.30 p.m. for New Plymouth* The colliei* &dni is expected to leave Sieymouth for New Plymouth to-mar-. row night with 500 tons of coal. A feport presented to the Nelsoii Harbour Bo^rd en the 3rd ihst.,rela-,-ttve to the new entrance to the- har- > bour, indicated that large qargo .steamel s can now go in. The 'southern por-.-, tion of the cut .through- -.the. vßouldst* fiarik, alongside the mole, upon, wjhich^ the dredge has been working'ipj* some tmic past, has now been completed right through to the outsid* 1 fairway. Soundings were recently takeji, and on tbe samo day the Union Steamsliip Company's steamers Penguin and PoUerua were taken by the pilot through *tho 150 feet portion of the cut recently completed,- without in any way iflconeniencing or delaying the work of tho 'dredge, which was at theViirae engaged j ot the outer end of thp adjoining:jjor■Jtion of.th,ecut- The, Poherua was^ako tu ken; out through the cut, after dark,•the same evening, almost, immfdi-iteiy fefter low .water, without the slightest hitch, the 4 dredge at; the same time loing moored in the ch?nnel. Pilbl Collins is sa well- satisfied with the prosi*nt position of the work that he is conftdont ihat steamers of tho Gothic cla#3. xonld be taken into the port without., 1 difficulty. ,