WESTPORT’S WANTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3393, 24 January 1920, Page 3

WESTPORT’S WANTS.

WESTPORT, Jan. 22.

Another large public meeting was held in the Town Hall this evening, when .Mayor :Leaven' read -telegrams from the Prime Minister and Mr Holland, M..P., requesting a deputation to come to ~Wellington, as the Prime Minister could not at present visit Westport, owing to stress of political duties. It was resolved that the Mayor (Mr A. Leaver), and Mr Geo. Powell (member of the County Council) accompany Mr Slee (chairman of the Harbour Board) and Mr Mclntyre (member of the Harbour ‘Board and chairman. of the County Council) to Wellington in regard to the Harbour Board question; also that the deputation urge the Prime Minister to proceed as rapidly as possible With the construction of the Buller Gorge railway so as to make -available for xnmkot large coal deposits in the gorge. The nieoting also expressed the hope that the Parliamentary party would make \Vestport a port of call on the way to Samoa.