ROTORUA'S MEMBER

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 12

ROTORUA'S MEMBER

ADDRESS TO ELECTORS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

EOTOETJA, This Day. Mr. C. H. Clinkard, M.P., and the Hon. W. A. Veiteh, addressed a meeting of electors last night. The Mayor, Mr. T. Jackson, presided over a fair attendance and introduced the apeakers.

Mr. Clinkard gave, an account of his stewardship, stressing the facts that the United Party was not disunited, that its policy had been maintained despite the stonewalling by the Reform Party, and he defended his attitude in regard to the Kotorua-Taupo railway. He read a communication from llv. H. 11. Sterling, the General Manager of Hallways, in rqgard to works for unemployment relief at Papatoetoe, Papakura, .Franktou, Horotiu, and Mercer, and the duplication of the Iluntly line, and payment of £.580,000 for rolling stock during the current year. Two complete' trains of entirely new rolling stock had been provided for Rotorua services with the first observation cars to be run on any regular service in New Zealand.

Mr. Veitch eulogised Mr. Clinkard's work. He had come to solve a difficult problem, the Mamaku Hill. He had made arrangements which he thought would be satisfactory, including an improved road. ' A vote of thanks and confidence was accord-eel Mr. Clinkart).