It) would be well within their recollec tions that they had discussed the ques tion as to whether the Government should not' be asked to take the rails up again, or put them on to the groyne. The Chairman : No. Captain Tucker: Excuse me, sir; it came up on my own motion. Mr Chrisp pointed out that they had little enough, room as it was for the stuff that arrived at the wharf for merchants. He had been asked to bring up the mat ter, and he thought it was one that the Board should consider. The Mayor said the inconvenience was only temporary, Captain Tucker ventur ing the opinion that it would work its own cure. Mr Macfarlane touched the point round which most discussion raged. Who gave authority to lay the rails in their present position? The engineer said he had not, and the Chairman said that he (the speaker) had <een the plans, but had given no au thority. He ridiculed the stand mada igainst the wharf railway, and held

- that for the next five years at any rate a for fifty tons shipped from the groyne - , there should be 1000 from the wharf. This, partly on account of the exposed * position of the groyne, which would at - times cause delay, and at _ times prevent » vessels taking cargo there at all. They had had the opportunity to discuss it 5 before, and had declined to give an ex -1 pression of opinion. Therefore, he pre sumed that the Government had assum -2 ed that it had a free hand in the mat ter. Nothing further was done in the ; matter. TRAINING WALL EXTENSION. 3 Mr Hepburn introduced the question : of doing tie training wall extension work by day labor or by contract, as was i foreshadowed in our issue of the previous evening. j Mr Macfarlane said it was a big ques -1 tion, and should be given notice of, so that they might have time to fully con l sider it, and discuss it in a large s meeting. Mr Chrisp: Yes, it means an expen , diture of — what? • Mr Macfarlane: £13,000. j Mr King said the original estimate had been somewhat modified. In reply : to Mr Macfarlane, •he said the specih i cations were all ready. 