DISTRICT INTERESTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 5

DISTRICT INTERESTS

KARORI WEST MOVEMENT

A feeling that, with the marked advance in the population of the district, there was need of an organisation to serve the interest of residents led to a meeting being held in Karori West this week. An explanation of the purpose of the meeting, at which Mr. R. C. Cressey presided over a good attendance, created some discussion as to whether a ,new body would conflict with an existing Karori association. "An association of our own for this part of the district is what we have wanted for. the last eighteen years," declared the convener (Mr. F. J. Feehan). "We have had very little done in that time, and what we have had done has been without the. aid of anybody else.". VSome criticism of the Karori Progressive Association was met with a reply that it was probably apathy on the part of the residents that accounted for Karori West requirements being overlooked.

As a member of the Karori Progressive Association,. Mr. A. J. Jeffs said that he did not view the calling of the meeting that night as a move in opposition to the Karori Progressive Association. That body he knew from experience' had done a lot of work, and an investigation, would reveal facts which would speak for themselves. Since Karori West had only really come to life in the last five years, said Mr. H. G. Hafpham, a great deal was. not to be expected, and he considered the attacks on the Karori Progressive Association were unwarranted, y

The chairman explained that it was j for the meeting to decide whether the j district was large enough to have its own interests represented by a separate i'-bodyi-^There was- no idea of slighting the Karori Progressive Association;: in f act^a'fspiritl bTec^bp^raiiis^xi cqtiffi ipre^ jVail. ''••>"*: ■•■ -' •■■; - 7ij77y ■ '

'■ Various matters were raised as showing that requirements had not received the consideration it-was claimed they deserved. "One thing that impresses most people," remarked ..Mr.-, V., R. Wiffin, "is . the stupidity of stopping trams at the Council Chambers and sending them back from there.: We at this end are solely dependent on trams for transport, whereas from the Counj cil Chambers the residents had the choice of three services."

. :It being evident that there were matters in plenty for the attention of a local organisation, the meeting decided upon the formation of the Karori West Householders' Association. Officers werp elected as follows:—-President, Mr. A. J. Jeffs; vice-presidents, Mrs. Stewart, M.P., and Mr. Little; secretary and treasurer, Mr. R. C. Cressey; committee, Messrs. A. R. Cliffe, ~F. J. Feehan, R. C. Cressey, H. Grondin, G. R. Miller, S. Duffy, M. Hicks, W. Bird, and H. G. . Harpham. The annual membership fee was fixed at 2s 6d.

In addition to -the various matters regarding which representations were to be made, as already outlined in "The Post," it was decided to seek the transfer of the waiting shed from the Karori Park entrance to the tram terminus. '