PORT AND CITY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19176, 6 December 1927, Page 16

PORT AND CITY.

COMMITTEE'S ACTIVITIES. In a letter to the Council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, received at last night's meeting, the Port and City Committee approached it for membership. Mr H. M. Chrystall (chairman), writing on behalf of the committee, advised that the following motion had been passed unanimously: "That this committee approach the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce with a request that they will grant us the right to elect one representativ who shall attend meetings of the Council and represent that section of the public who are not satisfied with Canterbury's present commercial connexion with the. sea." In terms of that motion he therefore asked if tho Council would be good enough to r>lace this motion before the Council. The committee ventured to suggest to the Council that it give it an early opportunity of placing its views before it, either by way or a round-the-table conference or by means of an illustrated lecture, since the committee considered that the question of direct access to the sea was a matter of paramount importance to the province; and one which it was felt intimately concerned and interested the Chamber.

Mr C. P. Agar (president) said the committee could be elected a member. Time would not permit of a discussion of the resolution, so he suggested that representatives of the committee bo invited to attend tho next meeting to put its views before them. Mr A. L. Macfarlane said the committee, of which he was a member, had divided its scheme into four main headings', and was collecting details. The Chamber could assist considerably in this direction. Two members wero working on' the question in the North Island and collecting data. The work was getting a little beyond the committee. Mr F. W. Hobbs suggested that the committee be asked to place its views before thorn at tho special meeting in March. Mr A, O. Wilkinson moving in this direction, the resolution was carried. Tlio question of the committee's membership of tho Council was held over.