WAIMAIRI POWER BOARD
Sir—Many stories are rife concerning the inception of the self-appointed “provisional committee,’’ of which Cr. Kitson claims to be chairman. The popular version is that, finding that they had acted unconstitutionally and were (as a public body) debarred from spending any money in promoting their scheme, a party of five councillors hastily formed themselves into a committee, the personnel being Crs. Kitson, Lawrence, Cross, Chapman, and Halligan. Their first activity (and probably their last) was to approach the council for a grant up to £IOO to liquidate the expenses which had already been incurred in launching their petition. The council, however, most generously, increased the grant to £l5O and authorised the payment. Should this version of the circumstances be, in any detail, incorrect, we can rely on Cr. Kitson to point out in what manner we have erred.—Yours, etc., FENDALTON RIDING. January 27, 1943. [Cr. Kitson said that he was not prepared to enter into any discussion with a writer who was not prepared to sign his name.]
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23858, 29 January 1943, Page 6
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