WAITAKI SCHEME.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19805, 18 December 1929, Page 16

WAITAKI SCHEME.

WORKS TO BE VISITED, i CITY COUNCIL'S DECISION. The Hit eri'l.-ity CoEimittt-c of the City : Council reported to the Council at its meeting last night that tt was of 1 opinion that the completion .of the 'Waitaki development was of vital interest to the City, and that it was of the utmost importance that supply from this plant should he available for the winter load of I?P>"J. In the circumstances, it was resolved th:it the committee should take an early opportunity of visiting the works and submitting a report upon the position to the Council. Cr. E. H. Andrews said that he considered that, the City Council should not put the City to the expense of such a jaunt. He did not think that such a trip would afford the Councillors any information. He moved that, the matter be referred back to the committee. Cr. H. T. J. Thacker said that that only served to show how small-minded, i bigoted, and one-eyed Cr. Andrews was. Cr. E. H. Andrews: Just like a doctor's prescription! Cr. Thacker said that this work was more important thau Coleridge. They did an etiormous amount of valuable work for the City, and if they could not do a "tiddly-winking" job without Cr. Andrews trying to decry it in his oneeyed fashion it ivas a great pity. They certainly had to cut their cloth according to their measure, but this was a trifling thing. Cr. F. R. Cooke said that most of the Council should have the particular experience of seeing these enterprises in the makiug. , Cr. J. A. Flesher remarked that wheu they were going to complete the whole of the Kurow dam he could not tell. It was not the duty of the Council to provide a stand-by plant, but the duly of the Government to deliver the goodr-.. They had a right to use every means to further the best interest of the City. Cr. E. B. AlcCombs said the idea was to demonstrate the intense interest of the people of Christchurch in the scheme. There was nothing the Council did of so much importance to Christchurch as the work done by the M.E.D. They wanted to demonstrate to the Government that it was holding bark the in-ogress of this City. The importance of this visit, would be added to if every member of the Council would go. The amendment was lost, and the clause was adopted.