KEEN FOR RAILWAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 6

KEEN FOR RAILWAY

BAY OF PLENTY NEEDS

DEPUTATION TO PRIME MINISTER r Crsur On c''«■ i tj^S'irfrTr/ OPOTTSX To-day. i Wien ti« OpatOti Eailway IVagire ! nisc this weefc it w-i-= stated that <*s ; ~r- M :r:i>:gr of Public MTcrks oratst. be i present w _ien tie de p ■-:ax:aa waits on the Prime Xnisisr it will be some days before Sir Joseph "Ward ■wrl oe able to receive tire deputationLetters were- received, rfom tire AockIsnd the Auckland Oiamber ef C ommerce crmngTy -"ppr,-"-ng tie extension, of : tixe line to Opori.kl. Vr- S- Shalfoon eorrteaded that the league should send a hrrsr deputation: to WellingtonThe cnarrnt, Mr. Jb HI Reid. siipported Mr. Skalfoon and said that to do any good the deputation to TVellrnftcn should he representative of the wbsle Bay of Plenty. 3Tr. Reid stared that he had reecntly met Mr. G. Baildon, the Mayor of Auckland, and hlr. TT_ R. Mackenzie, ciiamaa of the Harbour Board, and was practically assured of their support. The meeting unanimously decided to ask Mr. B. C. Bobbins chairman of the Bay of Plenty Development Lea ft® and Mayor of Tauranga. Mr. Hi R. Hagg. representing the Opotik. _ Hospital Board and Bay of Plenty Power Board, to proceed to Wellington with j the c®smty chairman. Mr. J. H_ Reid, and. the Mayor. Mr. G. ?. Moody, to wait on the Prime Minister in an en- j deavour to secure the extension of the j Main Trunk railway from Taneatoa i to Opotiki.