DEPUTATION TO WELLINGTON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 13 January 1931, Page 2

DEPUTATION TO WELLINGTON

COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO PREPARE CASE

Mr Black suggested that arrangements be made to send a deputation to Wellington. The League, he said, was satisfied with the strength of their case and Wellington was the place to do the talking about it. Mr Gibbs mentioned the Acting-Prime Minister’s statement in reply to the Gisborne deputation—that the men were being diverted to land development, but no statement of a scheme had yet been made. It was unanimously decided to send a deputation to Wellington. If the reply to the League’s message regarding the workers is favourable the deputation will not go to Wellington until Mr Forbes’s return, but if not, the deputation will go as soon as possible. All local bodies, associations of all kinds, and private citizens are requested to send representatives with the deputation. fn order to gain more information regarding the possibilities of the line it was decided to request the Ministers of Public Works, Railways, Lands and

Mines, to supply the League with copies pf the reports supplied by them to the Railway Lines Construction Committee relative to the potentialities of the Midland railway. Dr. Gibbs described the position as Gilbertian. The Government, lie said, say they are going to cease railway construction till the whole transport system is considered and yet they go on with the work on two and cut out work on three.

A special committee, comprising Messrs Gould, F. G. Gibbs, Moffatt. Black and the secretary, was appointed to prepare the case for the deputation. Mr Snodgrass reminded the meeting that as the Government itself decide 1 to build the line they should be asked to carry it on.