DIAMOND HARBOUR LAUNCH

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 17

DIAMOND HARBOUR LAUNCH

Burgessses Deny Allegations Allegations made in a report presented at a meeting last month’ of the Lyttelton Borough Council, by the chairman of the Diamond, Harbour ferry service committee (Cr. W. Morris) were denied at a meeting of the executive commit-i tee of the Diamond Harbour! Burgesses' Association on Satur-I day evening. It was said at the burgesses, meeting that if Cr. Morris was; correctly reported in “The Press” about a leakage <?f information from a council committee meeting, his statement that the information had been telephoned to Diamond Harbour on the Tuesday after the council meeting was contrary to fact. Cr. Morris was reported as saying that the information was telephoned to Diamond Harbour at 8 a.m. on the Tuesday and brought to Lyttelton by passengers by the 9 a.m. launch. It was said at the meeting that the Diamond Harbour telephone exchange does not open until 9 a.m., and there is no 9 a.m. boat on Tuesdays, The information did not reach Diamond Harbour until 5.55 p.m. on the Tuesday. To a letter from the council about the service, the executive committee decided to reply, that, although the association was at all times willing to co-operate with the council, the interests of Diamond Harbour residents would always be a first consideration.