NELSON NEW!

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21813, 19 June 1936, Page 20

NELSON NEW!

COBB VALLEY PO SCHEME

SATISFACTION AT DEOSIQkI OF MINISTER ; , 'i |THB PRESS Special Sem*,! nelson, w^:r The chairman of the Waimeu:fiLi: - trie Power Board (Mr P. W. gSslade) has been advised by theiiw# ter for Public Works (the Semple) as foHows:—"After (ißiiaS - sions with the Hume Pipe Otnasud I have generally agreed to company to assign its Cobb license to a special subsidiary tjZ,' pany. The articles of association kf * this company have to be suboOtttd'tfe and approved by, me before floated -proval, but indications are that will be no difficulty over this the work will be pushed on by ** Hume Company and its assignee" 7^ Mr Greenslade* said the report fnß the Minister was very satisfactory m was a step forward in the nSS* scheme for the whole district awtfS expected the scheme would now S ahead, and that the whole district, eluding Nelson city, would be on |w sajne basis for cheap electric esaSt ■ as other parts of New Zealand. *** City Council Vacancy Nominations for one vacancy on Nelson City Council, caused by Sp resignation of Cr. S. H. Mmm.3F closed at noon- to-day. The foUouSff four candidates were nominaiedsJoseph Auty Harley, Francis Homy Sharland, Samuel William StwyJ and Henry Everly Arthur Waft, bourne. The election will take nSI on June 29. Obituary The death occurred this morning «f John Thomas Radford at the age a£g| years. Mr Radford’s interest had always been bound up in the progrtga of Tahunanui, and he haa largely of his time and energy 09& many years towards assisting in RB advancement of the town and dbtckl He was at first connected with the' «£ Progressive Association and war among those instrumental in fdrariß the Town Board. He acted as tows clerk since the inception of the bowfcr On his retirement as town 'clerk abaft; three years ago Mr Radiord wus elected a board member.

He leaves a widow and two daughters, Mrs A. G. Schroder (Rai Valkor) and Mrs A. Borgfeldt (Tahuna).