WEST COAST FLOODS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30093, 29 March 1963, Page 2

WEST COAST FLOODS

C.W.L Leader Delayed (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, March 28 ‘This is my first acquaintance with the West Coast and they certainly turned it on for me—floods and all," said the president of the New Zealand Federation of Country Women's Institutes (Mrs M Holt) in Greymouth today. Mrs Holt thought at one stage that she would not be able to get to a meeting she was to address in Greymouth. She spent Tuesday in Harihari and on Wednesday a slip blocked the road five miles north of the settlement. It ' .s cleared during the morning. however, and Mrs Holt was able to go to Greymouth, although later than had been planned The visit to the West Coast was part of a programme which Mrs Holt is undertaking to tell Country Women’s Institutes throughout New Zealand about tire conference of the Associated Country Women of the World. She attended this conference in Melbourne last year as a Dominion delegate. She hopes to get to most of the groups in the Country by October. Last week Mrs Holt was in Whakatane. She arrived on the West Coast on Monday, going first to Hokitika. On Tuesday she addressed a meeting in Kowhitirangi, and on Tuesday night at Hari - h-ari. After an overnight stay in Greymouth she left yesterday tor the Buller area. Today she will go to Wellington and on Saturday she will return home.