TWO PARLIAMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 18

TWO PARLIAMENTS.

ONE FOR EACH ISLAND

SUGGESTION FROM SOUTHLAND.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

INVERCAKGILL, Friday.

Tlie establishment of a Parliament for the South Island *vas suggested in a letter from Mr. W. Hinchey, chairman of'-the Southland Electric Power Board, at a meeting of the Southland provincial executive of the Farmers' Union to-day; " It was decided to place the matter on the agenda paper for the next meeting. "There is no disguising the fact that we have for some years been losing ground to the North," said Mr. Hinchey. "We have lost our regular and natural shipping connection with Australia, and trade has been drawn to northern ports. The Union Company removed its headquarters from Dunedin, the place of its birth, to Wellington. This was a very serious loss to Otago and Southland.

"We are threatened with the centrali- ! sation of shipping in Wellington, and, should this occur, it would spell destruction to the ports of Bluff and Otago and largely affccfc the port of Lyttelton. Toiteiat traffic to Eotorna has contributed extensively to tho growth and prosperity of Auckland, and notwithstanding that this island has much to attract tourists wc.hayo not had a fair share of'the revenue derived from that source.'** 1 • i