PROGRESS LEAGUE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16309, 5 September 1918, Page 6

PROGRESS LEAGUE.

WORK OF ORGANISATION

vV S - intemo,v last crVGn > n g, 3i» 1 . R. Climie, organiser for thefW terbury Progress League, outimtft work that tho League has bCdJJ* during the past week. Deputations, he said, had tho Akaroa, Hals well, Snrirvr. •nr"? Para, (fcfbri, and Councils, and had in all cases J®'™?. marked syinplu,^® l hnd himself spent a weelj visit;* tiy districts, and had that the progress of the was being watched with The need for a unity fully recognised. In some found that there was an that the League Lad a cut-ffig2 programme, but ho had tho committees now at providing the machineiy, and that. u* policy of the League would be fon« jated by the delegates of tho contriß mg bodies Ho was especially ed by tho fact that tho League wtfS regarded anywhere as merely a 32 movement, and for that reason ha SH convinced that the whole moYetnS I could be and would bo carried to iwl I cess. Everywhere ho had found that the local bodies wero eager to sutnoti one another. He did not think tii,t city people fully appreciated theoriSE spirit and breadth of view of the ma who wero holding public positions in the country districts. They were fully alive to oil tho problems' calling fa solution, and if tho present movement achioved nothing moro than the bring, ing together of representatives of them bodies for the discussion of question, of general interest to Canterbury ft., would have made a very important' ad- v vance. One of the matters on which he was most keenly questioned was that of repatriation, concerning which' there was a real anxiety, and nis assurance that the Progress Leoguo would tab an active part in this work was Ten cordially welcomed.

Mr Climio said that the Mayor of Christchurch. and himself had waited on the Oxford County Council on Monday, and had been most sympathetically received. In the evening he hid explained the schemo of organisation and tho purposes of the League to th« Tnwera County Council, which had subsequcntly resolvod unanimously to gift tho movement its practical support) and had voted its full quota.