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Destructor Buildings, etc.
The detail plans of these buildings prepared by the Surveyor were approved by the
Vestry on the 20th July, 1897, when the Clerk was instructed to issue the advertisement
inviting tenders for the work in due course.
Loading and Unloading Goods.
On 6th July, 1897, the vestry decided to let the Wharf for the loading and unloading of
goods when available, at the following charges :—
10s. a day for barges.
15s. ,, schooners.
3d. per ton for use of crane for ordinary work with a minimum charge of 10s.
2d. per load for use of weighbridge.
Eate for special work to be left to Surveyor with a minimum charge of 10s.
Sufferance Privileges.
On 7th September, 1897, the Clerk reported with reference to the bond which the
Commissioners of Customs required to be entered into in regard to sufferance privileges
granted by them for the landing of stone, iron and wood at the vestry's wharf, that he had
had an interview with the Secretary of the Board, and that some doubt had arisen as to the
power of the vestry to enter into such a bond as principal, but the Secretary had requested
him to intimate when the Wharf was finished, and to forward the names of two gentlemen
prepared to act as sureties to the bond, and in the event of the Board of Customs Solicitor
deciding that the Vestry could not enter into the bond as principal, the vestry would be
required to appoint some gentleman as principal.
The matter had not progressed at the close of the year.