114 Transactions. 
In 1871 the Provincial Council agreed to sell all of the unsold sections 
of reclaimed land to the City Council for £12,000. Needless to say, it 
was a bargain for the city, and the City Councillors of that date are 
entitled to the gratitude of subsequent generations. e Council was wise, 
and did not attempt to part with the freeholds, excepting some taken 
over by the General Government. 
In 1873 the Provincial Council agreed to convey to the General 
Government nearly 3 acres of unreclaimed lands for the purpose of 
erecting Government Buildings and for railway purposes at Pipitea. 
uring the same session, on the motion of Mr. Edward Pearce, it was 
resolved that the Council recommend that the tract of land covered with 
water, extending from Te Aro Flat to Lambton Harbour, comprising 
70 acres or thereabouts, be granted to the City of Wellington to be 
reclaimed from the sea. The resolution was approved by the Superin- 
tendent. This is the block known later as the Te Aro reclamation. 
e used. 
from FitzGerald Point and the Roseneath Hill. Particulars of the Te 
Aro reclamation are easily obtainable, and, with those of the Kaiwarra 
reclamation, now in hand, are left to the future historian. 
WHARVES. 
General. 
In the Wellington Harbour Board Year-book issued in December, 1921, 
there is recorded a list of the piers or jetties, including Brown’s, Rhodes's, 
Moore's, and others, constructed during the early years of settlement, which 
€ be хаан » substantially correct. The following notes are 
supplementary those in the Year- i i by Mr. 
ia Best e Year-book, which were compiled by 
‘ The Commercial Wharf, unlike the other early wharves, was constructed 
ya public company with a capital of £250 in £2 shares. The wharf was 
completed in December, 1841. It accommodated vessels up to 30 and 40 tons. 
A wharf that is not mentioned in the Year-book is Tod’s. Tod was 
speculator who arrived from Sydney in 1839, and acquired land in the 
neighbourhood of what is now Charlotte Street. Probably the jetty shown 
in Brees — of Barrett’s Hotel, and next to the Commercial Wharf, 
у. 
It ran out from Willis Street virtuall rallel 
| to Customhouse Street (oT 
Old Customhouse Street, as it is se ыч m oy 
