QUESTION TO MINISTER
Members Seek Support • horn On? Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. Two Canterbury members gave notice of another question they will ask the Minister of Works iMr Watt) when the House of Representatives resumed today. Messrs N. E. Kirk (Government, Lyttelton) and M. A. Connelly (Government, Riccarton) asked Mr Watt: “Whether he will support Canterbury members in their endeavours to secure a revision of the present attitude of the Local Authorities Loans Board to the Lyttelton road tunnel project, so that the present costly and dangerous route via Evans Pass can be replaced at the earliest possible date by safe and speedy access to the South Island’s main port by way of a road tunnel?”
A note to the question says: “The present route is very steep and most hazardous, especially in winter when it is subject to icing. A great number of accidents, some resulting in deaths, have occurred on this route and have involved both heavy and ordinary traffic.”
Junior Library.— The children’s library at Cashmere is to be called the Cashmere Junior Library, the Heathcote County Council decided at its meeting last evening.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29010, 26 September 1959, Page 14
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