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Control of Foreshores and Wharves. An important function of the Marine Department is the efficient control of foreshores not already vested in local authorities and the approval of all plans for wharves or any works contemplated by harbour and other local authorities. Applications for foreshore licences and plans for harbour-works are submitted to this Department, and when approved are the subject of Orders in Council. The following return shows the Orders in Council which have been issued during the year ended 31st March, 1937

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Date of Order. Purpose of Order. 1936. 1st April .. .. Approving plan (M.D. 7417) —Extension Whakatane Wharf. 29th „ .. .. Approving plan (M.D. 7410) —Slipway. Bluff Harbour; Bluff Yacht Club. 29th „ .. . . Approving plan (M.D. 7418) —Boatshed and skid, Evans Bay, Wellington Harbour ; W. F. Coleman. 29th ,, .. . . Approving plan (M.D. 7426) —No. 2 Jetty, Lyttelton Harbour (widening). 6th May .. • • Approving plan (M.D. 7423) —Extension Oyster Wharf, Bluff Harbour ; Bluff Harbour Board. 6th ,, .. • • Approving plan (M.D. 7434) —Punt Ferry, Mercer, Waikato River : Roose Shipping Co., Ltd. 6th „ .. •. Approving plan (M.D. 7409) —Widening Bowen Pier, Port Chalmers ; Otago Harbour Board. 6th ,, . . .. Approving plan (P.W.D. 91723) —Wharf, Motutapu Island, Auckland Harbour ; Defence Department. 6th „ .. • ■ Approving plan (M.D. 7435) —Reconstruction Birch Street Wharf, Dunedin ; Otago Harbour Board. 6th ,, . . .. Licensing G. G. Hayter and C. Hayter occupy foreshore, Port Hardy, D'Urville Island (wharf). 6th ,, .. ■ • Revoking Order in Council (27th March, 1923) licensing O'stendOnetangi Wharves, Ltd., occupy foreshore Onetangi, Waiheke Island (wharf). 13th ,, . . • • Authorizing Auckland Harbour Board reclaim land, Freeman's Bay. 13th „• .. .. Approving plan (M.D. 7431) —Reclamation, Freeman's Bay ; Auckland Harbour Board. 13th „ .. . . Licensing Northern Wairoa Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., occupy foreshore, Mangawhare, Northern Wairoa River (wharf and coal-bins). 13th „ .. .. Revoking Order in Council (8th June, 1922) licensing W. Duncan occupy foreshore, Wade River (wharf). 13th ,, .. .. Revoking Order in Council (18th June, 1923) licensing Mrs. E. L. Smith occupy foreshore, Wade River (wharf). 20th ,, . . . ■ Licensing W. H. Saies occupy foreshore, Totara North, Whangaroa Harbour (store). 12th June .. . . Authorizing Tauranga Harbour Board reclaim land in Tauranga Harbour. 12th ,, . . • ■ Approving plan (M.D. 7442) —Reclamation, Tauranga Harbour. 16th ,, . . . . Revoking Order in Council (16th July, 1928) licensing John Harrison occupy foreshore, Whangape Harbour (wharf). 16th „ . . . . Revoking Order in Council (8th June, 1925) licensing trustees of estate of H. B. Riley occupy foreshore, Collingwood Harbour (wharf). 16th „ . . . . Approving plan (M.D. 7440) —Training Wharf, Calliope Dock, Auckland Harbour. 16th „ .. . . Approving plan (7443) —Dolphins, Off Launch Jetty, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga Harbour. 1st July .. . . Licensing A. C. Moore occupy foreshore, Rangiora, Hokianga Harbour (sawmill and timber-yard). 1st „ .. .. Approving plan (M.D. 7450) —Groynes, South Beach, Blaketown, Greymouth; Greymouth Harbour Board. 1st. „ .. .. Approving plan (M.D. 7447)—Jetty, Railway Reserve, Picton; Morgan and Olsson. 22nd ,, .. . . Licensing Pasco Bros., Ltd., to use and occupy part of foreshore at Half-moon Bay as a site for a wharf. 22nd ,, .. . . Revoking Order in Council of 18th June, 1934, licensing Paturau Valley Estate, Ltd., to occupy foreshore at Mangarakau River. 22nd ,, .. .. Approving plan (M.D. 7449) —New Mangonui Wharf. 22nd ,, . . . . Approving plan (M.D. 7463) —Dolphin at Bluff Harbour Board's Slipway, Bluff Harbour. 22nd ,, . . .. Approving plan (M.D. 7452) —Sewage outfall, &c., Chelsea Bay, Auckland Harbour ; Birkenhead Borough Council. 5th August .. ■ • Amending Order in Council (13th May, 1930) licensing Mrs. E. S. Mullions occupy foreshore, Whangaroa Harbour (boatshed, &c.). 5th ,, .. .. Approving plan (M.D. 7470) —Stop-bank, Whangaroa Harbour. 5th ,, .. . . Approving plan (M.D. 7453) —Workshop and shipyard, St. Lawrence, Admiralty Bay ; A. S. Turner and Sons. 5th „ .. .. Licensing A. S. Turner and Sons occupy foreshore, St. Lawrence, Admiralty Bay (workshop and shipyard).