PROGRESS LEAGUES MEET IN CONFERENCE
MORE PUBLICITY WANTED Press Association. WESTPORT, Wednesday. A conference of South Island progress leagues was held at Westport to-day, Mr. P. G. Struthers, president of the Westport Progress League, presiding. The delegates were welcomed by the Mayor, Mr. J. H. Harkness. Thirty-five remits were considered, most of them being carried. Among tlios© carried were remits urging the speedy completion of the railways southward from Nelson and Marlborough; better publicity for the South Island; construction of a railway from east to west, via Lewis Saddle; asking Government assistance in having the pre-war South Island coastal and Australian shipping services reinstated; and the allocation of the petrol tax on a basis of the amount of petrol used in each island. The next conference will be held at Blenheim.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 344, 3 May 1928, Page 11
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131PROGRESS LEAGUES MEET IN CONFERENCE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 344, 3 May 1928, Page 11
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