DR M.NAB IN PALMERSTON
_.;__-...TW0 DEPUTATIONS. By Telegraph-Press Association. .- '_•'■• Palmerston North, June 22 Jwo deputations, waited upon Dr M\Nab at Palmerston North to-day. The .Fanners' Union: asked the .Minister to do all m his power to have the lime-' stone deposit in the Manawatu Gorge vested m -a controlling body, preferably ■: ;the larmers'Union, with the object of , ultimate ..transfer to. a company of farm...:ers..; The Minister said lie would refer ..the proposition to the Minister of Lands ■u A -^i'""" l,erot local bodies, asked the -Minister's assistance in preserving ..the bush on Whariti. Dr. M'Nab ex- : plained that the matter.'was not in his ;,{Department, but under the province of ./the Minister of Lands. He was in sym- . ;pathy with the deputation, but it would , not do to Teservc lands which might be ; ;usefu,l for closer* settlement. He would -bring the matter under the Minister of Lands' observation. The time was not •far distant when Palmerston would be a .great city, and recreation-grounds must be provided for futuro generations.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2804, 23 June 1916, Page 6
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168DR M.NAB IN PALMERSTON Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2804, 23 June 1916, Page 6
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