PRIME MINISTER'S APPROVAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 17 July 1929, Page 4

PRIME MINISTER'S APPROVAL

Or PROGRESS LEAGUE'S ATTh TUDE TELEGRAM FROM THE HON. H. ATMORE The Secretary of the Nelson Provincial Progress League (Mr E. R. Neale) has received ;Vie 'fallowing telegram from tiie Minister of Education (the Hon. H. Atmore): I duly handed to the Prime Minister copy oi resolution passed at yesterday's meeting of your league in which you intimated that it was not your intention, to take part in the proposed united deputation to the Prime Minister to urge liim to construct the main trunk lines in the South Island and his comment was: "A very sensible attitude to take up." Mr Climie, secretary of the Canterbury Progress League sent me a copy of the circular to which you refer as having been handed to you by Mr Snodgrass and I am pleased to hear that you have decided to adhere to the resolution carried at your yesterday's meeting and to which I referred in the first part of this telegram. Your league and tne district will certainly lose nothing by the attitude you have adopted and of which I entirely approve. As reported in "The Mail" yesterday Progress League passed a resolution deciding not to join a deputation 'to the Prime Minister from the Marlborough Progress and other Leagues on railway matters because "the Nelson Progress League refuses to cast doubt on the good faith of the Government by urging it to Jo what it has promised to do and is actively engaged in doing."