LYTTELTON HARBOUR BOARD.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13338, 29 March 1911, Page 5

LYTTELTON HARBOUR BOARD.

ANNUAL REPORT. (Per United Press Association.)’ ) CHRISTCHURCH, March 29. Hie annual report of the, Lyttelton Harbour Board shows that after meeting extra expenditure amounting to .£61,064, there was a cash credit balance of .£(5500 at Jhe end of the past year. The extra expenditure includes a final payment on the dredge, full payment for now -Fruhling dredge, alterations to jetties, reclamation works, and diving apparatus. It .is expected that the sale of the dredf<£- Manchester will realise about .£20,000. The sinking funds total about £70,342. 'Hie wharfage revenue has increased by £5836, the total being £28,830, a record for sie port, while pilotage and port charges amounted to £20,647. Exports and imports increased by 50,271 tons. In.his address Mr Fricdlander, the chairman, referred to the graving dock as a white elephant. It was not paying working Expenses; and while the interest on tiie first cost was £6357 annually, the total loss to the Board in this connection was 17,811. A PECULIAR POINT. CHRISTCHURCH, March 29fc At the meeting of the Lyttelton !!«■- hour Board this morning the queptmn arose as to whether members of the Boaftid could object to names on the Board’s electoral roll before the chairman signed a. The Board's solicitor gave the opinion that no member was entitled to object, position which members characterised hb an extraordinary one. The chairman th|p signed the roll. The point at issue wag whether persons who paid for pjlptagq c&cmntion certificates were payers of duvs within the moaning of the Act. fl