Labour Party M.P.'s To Study Taupo Electorate

Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 56, 20 July 1965, Page 8

Labour Party M.P.'s To Study Taupo Electorate

Farmers in the Taupo area will have personal liaison with three Labour Party M.P's when they make an intensive speaking and fact-finding tour of the Taupo electorate this week. The M.P's who arrived in Taupo yesterday are Messrs P. Amos (Manurewa), B. MacDonell (Dunedin Central), and S. Watene (Eastern Maori). The tour will be made during the parliamentary recess. After discussing problems concerning farmers on the newly-developed pumice lands, the party held a public meeting in the Memorial Hall last night. Today the party will travel to Mangakino to study Maraetai II. and farming in that area. After lunching at Mangakino, the party will continue to Tokoroa.

At Tokoroa, Messrs Amos, MacDonell and Watene will be conducted over N.Z. Forest Products' mill at Kinleith and will meet local Labour leaders and discuss problems associated with the growing town and also the contentious clauses in the Tokoroa Town Empowering Bill. The three M.P's will address a public meeting at the Presbytorian Church Hall, Tokoroa, on Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning it is hoped that Messrs Amos and MacDonell will investigate the serious shortage of primary teachers in the Taupo-Wairakei area, while Mr Watene will meet local Maori landowners to discuss the local Maori land problem. The M.P's will conclude their tour with a conducted tour of the Turangi hydro scheme, and will then return to Taupo for discussions with Labour Representation Committee officials on matters including the visit of Mr Nordmeyer to the electorate in the near future.