Thames Harbor Board.

Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9113, 6 July 1898, Page 4

Thames Harbor Board.

I The Board met last evening. Pre- <; ient: Messrs Clark (in the evening), i Gillespio, Deeble, McDonnell, Davey, llPatenon, and Scott. >' Sxkd.—John Gallagher applied for 3f ''permission to build on the foreshore, j£ near Curtis' Wharf, a 10xl2ft shed, to £■ keep nets and (rear in. He promised .to shift when required.—Granted, :-■ aubjectto Harbor Master's supervision, |:at 10s per year rental. L-. Favoeitk Special Claim. —In regard

|f4o the special foreshore claim, the I Board approved the licenses recomby the Warden. I 1 lu.YDra Pipes Thbottgh the

1 Whabf.—Messrs J. and W- Judd |^v«sked for permission to open the solid of the wharf to lay a water t pipe and a drain pipe side by side to P enable them to work the foreshore

l { between Curtis' and Goods Wharf.— £ Granted, subject to Harbor Master's and to wharf traffic not IbeW interrupted. p Habboob's Mastbb's Report.—The t'Barbonr Master reported as follows: £ —"Nothing was undertaken during S June other than keeping the road at kboth Goods Wharf and Shortland in *' impair, The; have both been patched ptrith metal, as the wear and tear is in wet weather: I laid fj down a clean set of channel buoys I"' during the month, and on some of '■' flues tried the luminous paint, but I V'hwro not yet ascertained its value in fallowing at night or the distance it f am be seen, as none of the masters of ; the up-river steamers hare given me "their opinion. I hope to hear soon, as until I do hear I ehall not use any

i', more. Mr Butler haß made a very k good start with the wharf repairs. He |\' has forty piles driven and must of his I' Iteadstocks, brace 3, and wallings are 5 upon the wharf, and by present g^jmpearances I think the contract will ■P* completed in the time specified. I Kmts taken no further steps yet about ■Kopu light."—Received and adopted. X.' Tinders. —Thefollowing tenders for Bfanber supply were opened:—Kauri Jmmber Company, 13s 9d per 100 ft, |S«d 6d extra for long lengths; J. Read, ;' las 6d pel 100 ft, and Is 6d extra for !; tyrag lengths.; W. Burton, 12s per felOOft for lengths up to 24ft, and 15s Kbout that length.—The Harbour stated that in the planking

Mtsed Jor the last two years, there I "were no lengths above 24ft.—Mr I ODavey moved, and Mr Faterson Stoonded: That Mr Burton's tender bis Accepted.—This was (sarried, a motion ' in favor of the acceptance of Mr Bead's tender, moved by Mr Oillespie, being Bot seconded—Mr Eenshaw's was the tdAj tender fcr ironmongery and was aMinptod tI*RETSBB» WHAEF ExTEKSIOH.—It waa resolved that plans and specifications be prepared for the farther extension for 150 ft of the Goods Wharf.— Mr Gilleepie was of opinion that it was within reach of the Board's finances to extend for 200 feet.—ln regard to this statement. Mr Mc- - Donnell contended that the repairs to the old portion of the wharf were vßktl; to cost more than the Board had ' at firtj thought. The accounts we#« passed forpayment. '