OTAGO EXPANSION LEAGUE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19473, 7 May 1925, Page 3

OTAGO EXPANSION LEAGUE.

executive meeting. The Executive Committee of the Otago Expansion Teague met on 'Tuesday evening, Air fi. B. Macdonald presiding. Correspondence dealing’ with tno improve meat to the road leading to Mount Aspiring was received, and it was resolved aitc: communicating with the Lake County Council to co-operate with it in asking tor i. further grant to complete the work. The 1 tail ways Committee reported that the deviation lino from Tunedin t,, Kavensbourno had been opened for traiiic. Hus represented Uie culmination of Ua committee’s first big task, and it was now proposed to carry on the agitation lor tne extension to Burkes. Suggestions had been placed before the Traffic Manager regarding minor’ alterations to the timetable to accommodate the changed running ot the main line trains. The joint meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, the Amenities Society, and the league, to consider the question of tiu proposed nitrates manufactory 1,1 Milfoil. Sound was held. The meeting resulted ua deadlock, the Chamber ot Commerce Anally deciding that the subject, did nui really oomo within the scope qf its active ties. The joint resolution protesting againsi the erection of tho manufactory was then rescinded, and each association was left !■ act independently. The Minister of Pubic Works had boon notified that the league bad withdrawn its opposition to tho pro posaL u letter from the Amenities Society was road asking the league to include m in statement to the Minister a suggestion that a license should not be granted fm the use of the Bowen Falls if some othei source of power equally advantageous could he secured. —Tho secretary ' was instructed to inform the Amenities Society that tin league, having withdrawn its opposition l tho granting of a license for the Bower Calls, does not deem it advisable to tain any further action on tho lines indicated. The conference of South Island Teagues was held in Invercargill on Tuesday, April 28, when delegates representing Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago, ami Southland were present. The Otago remits wore adopted. Tho Canterbury re mits, with some technical amendments, wore passed. ’The Nelson and -Marl borough remits dealt wiih the railway routes from Christchurch North. These questions were held over ponding tho receipt of a report by the Canterbury Commission, which is expected in a tow days. The Southland remits were adopted, while those of Bailor were more severely handled, one being lost, one field over, one adopted, one amended, and one withdrawn. Tho invitation to hold the conference in Dunedin next March was readily accepted-—The President reported at length on tho conference and also on tho other functions to which tho delegates wore invited during their stay in Southland. The President reported that at tho request of tho Exhibition directors tho league had undertaken tlie organisation of the Otago Court at tho forthcoming Exhibition. Tho whole of tho local bodies had been circularised and a most successful and enthusiastic gathering was hold in the New Zealand Express Company’s board room on Thursday, April 23. The secretary had prepared a list of contributions from the various bodies which had been adopted. An executive was formed of which the president was appointed treasurer and the secretary, tho organiser. On behalf of the league the president promised to allow the secretary to take up tin's work. Mr Steel had already waited upon several local bodies with good results, and would be kepi busy in attending to tho many things required to perfect Otago’s representation. —The action of tho president was endorsed and tho league members wore pleased ai tho results already obtained. The assistance of the league would also be rendered to (ho Manufacturers’ Association promoters of tho Otago Week to be hold early in Juno.