PROGRESS LEAGUE

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1920, Page 3

PROGRESS LEAGUE

I Tho Executive of the Local Committee of the Canterbury Progress League held its inaugural, meeting at the County Chambers lust evening. Tho regular meetings of the Executive were fixed for , tho third Tuesday of each month, and it was decided that every third meeting should be the general meeting at which all members of the Westland Branch are. entitled to attend. ('The first general meeting will therefore take place oh the third Tuesday in November. Encouraging indications of interest have been received and efforts are to be continued by all to enroll members. The hope was expressed that every member would himself seek to get others. A circular letter is to be prepared for distribution in the district further afield, setting out the aims and objects of tho League. Arrangements were made for the approaching visit of tli e delegates from Christchurch, eight or ten in number. The party are to be met by Mr Evans as representative of the Locaj Committee, when they arrive at Otira on Tuesday, the 17th instant, - and brought through to Hokitika by special cars. On Wednesday, the 18th, they will he taken around Kokutahi and Koiterangi districts and be given an opportunity of meeting the residents there in the afternoon. They will also visit Kanieri Lake and Araliura. In the evening a reception is being arranged for in the Town Hall, to which the public are cordially invited. On the 19th, the party, accompanied by members of the local Committee, go south, meeting the local residents at Wailio on Thursday evening. An opportunity to discuss matters with Ross residents will be given on Saturday as the party return. The delegates proceed north to Greymouth on Saturday evening. The programme should enable the ' party, who represent the Canterbury Progress League, Canterbury Industrial Association, and Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, to gai* a very fair knowledge of the Coast, and at the same time come in'eontact with settlors and others, thus seeing and hearing first'hand tlie possibilities and disabilities of the. district. The Committee considered and formulated a list of matters of importance to ' the district generally, which are to. form the preliniiipiiy hut definite oh- • jeetivos of tho League, These with other matters, will he placed before the visiting delegates: by speakers at the public meeting'in the Town Hall oil Wednesday evening, thereby preparing them that they may verify the sa.ip.e during their tour. It was decided shn£ a deputation wait on the Hokitika Borough Council at its next nipetirig;; also that financial assistance, he' nought i’rom%>tlicf local bodies, dairy factories and others. It was felt that the expenditure would be well worth while if we but send our Christchurch friends away with reliable first hand evidence of the justness of our wants aq well its hotter personal acquaintance with u,s and our West Coast.