The following representatives were present:- Messrs J. Loudon (chairman), J. M. Dickson, M.P., W. Wilkinson, A. H. Bridger (Harbour Board), J. J. Clark (Mayor), J. Wilson, and J. H. Hancock (City Council).
Tentative plans as to the ultimate lay-out of the reclaimed area were submitted by the engineer to the Harbour Board (Mr Wilkie). The final position arrived at was that the committee of the City Council is to further consider the matter and submit to the committee of the Harbour Board its idea of the area required as a recreation park for the citizens, and its opinion of the amount the council should contribute towards the cost of reclamation.
The second phase of the question, as to meeting the complaints of an alleged nuisance, was practically left in the hands of the Harbour Board.
The board's proposal is to cut a channel from the Opoho Creek in a direct line to the outlet, and to reclaim on the residence side of the lake to a sufficient extent to make the whole area dry, with the exception of the channel referred to.
Another conference is to be held between the committees at an early date, when it is hoped something definite will be arrived at to lay before both bodies.
Out of control
Mr H. A. Young, S.M., presided over a short sitting of the Juvenile Court yesterday morning, when a girl about 14 years of age, was charged under the Industrial Schools Act with being a child not under proper control. Her father gave evidence that his daughter had got out of control during the time he was in France on active service, and he desired that she should be placed in a home. He was prepared to pay 7s 6d per week for her support. She was committed to the Te Oranga Home, to be brought up in the Wesleyan form of religion, the father to contribute 7s 6d per week towards her support.
Another sitting of this court was held in the afternoon, when a little boy, aged nine years, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a dozen lead pencils, a bunch of keys, and a pair of surgical scissors, of the total value of 25s, the property of Alexander McLaughlan and Walter Wright. Chief Detective Bishop stated that by means of a key which he evidently found in Ward street, the boy entered complainants' shop and stole the articles mentioned. There were three shillings' worth of pencils still missing, but the remainder of the stolen property had been recovered. He thought the boy required to be placed under some control. The Magistrate admonished and discharged the boy, his father undertaking to pay the cost of the pencils which had not been recovered. He also ordered the boy to receive a thrashing from his father in the presence of Mr Sureties, who is to have a supervising control over the boy.
More fat sheep
The rapid rise and the growth of the freezing industry in Otago is to be seen in the remarkable number of fat sheep throughout the country (states the Clutha Leader). Everywhere there are hundreds, in some places thousands, of the finest looking sheep that have been seen for many seasons. The high prices received for frozen mutton are rapidly turning many districts from crop producing communities to pastoral grazing localities.
- ODT, 7.2.1918.
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