TUNNEL ROAD PROPOSAL
CONFERENCE TO BE CALLED
REHABILITATION WORK
A conference of public bodies to consider urging on the Government the construction of a tunnel road from Christchurch to Lyttelton will shortly be held. Approval for the calling of the conference was given last evening by the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, which had before it a report from its tunnel road committee on the Lyttelton Borough Council's suggestion that the project be included among rehabilitation works. Mr V. E. Hamilton, who presented the committee’s report, said it was proposed to call together a conference of representatives of those bodies which participated in the conference called by the chamber in 1937. He recalled that the 1937 conference was held at the wish of the Government and that the list of 28 local bodies represented was approved by the then Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage). Of those bodies 23 had voted in favour of a tunnel road being constructed by the Government. It was hoped at the proposed conference to get an even bigger majority in favour of the scheme as a rehabilitation work.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23941, 7 May 1943, Page 4
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