SUMMIT ROAD.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 1956, 22 May 1920, Page 11

SUMMIT ROAD.

STATE AID SOUGHT. CABINET TO bECIDE. A request that the Government should subsidise, £2 for £l, all moneys subscribed by the public in an appeal which the Port Ilills-Akaroa Summit EoaCl and Reserves Association proposes making for £GWO, to be given over a period of three years, was made to the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey) by a Ckristehureh deputation to-day. The money is required for additions to rest houses and the extension of the Summit Road. Mr Massey promised to lay the request before Cabinet. The deputation was introduced by Mr H. G. Ell, and Messrs W. Machin (chairman of the association), G. Harper and G. T. Booth placed the facts before the Minister. Mr Massey replied that he had heard of the Suniw.it Road. In Parliament Mr Ell had always been its champion, and it was largely due to his efforts that past Government aid had been secured. He could only submit the association's proposal to Cabinet. He had no right to —and, indeed, he could not —commit the Government without consulting his colleagues. When they were preparing the Estimates—-the Public Works Estimates probably—he would bring the matter up in Cabinet, and if the money was available he had no doubt that some assistance would be forthcoming. How much it would be, he could not say. Until then, the association must have'patience.