Meeting on regional development

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33068, 8 November 1972, Page 18

Meeting on regional development

The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr N. G. Pickering) will be chairman of a meeting on November 15 to obtain action on regional development in greater Christchurch.

The meeting has been called by the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association, which has asked for concerted action on a regional development scheme, and invited Mr Pickering to be the chairman. The association has invited representatives of 15 local bodies and interested organisations, from Kaiapoi to Timaru, to attend. The director of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association (Mr I. D. Howell) said yesterday that he was pleased Mr Pickering had accepted the invitation to be chairman as his presence would be a clear indication that the meeting would be one calling for action in unison to plan a regional development scheme for the benefit of all the region, not just any one organisation or interested party. It would be one of the, purposes of the meeting to! define the “region" for the! ——————— Shotc Day mails No mail deliveries will be made in Christchurch on Friday (Show Day). Air mail dispatches, toll exchange and; telegraph services will be the same and surface mails will! be dispatched as usual during the morning. Street posting boxes will be cleared at 9 p.m.; the stamps, delivery and registration counters at the Christchurch Chief Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 11.30 am.; the motor! registration branch will be closed all day; and the Post Office Savings Bank will be; open at the Chief Post Office > from 9 ajn. to 1130 a.m. '

(development scheme, Mr Howell said. Several criteria (would have to be established and a Government subsidy might be available to assist in financing the study. The meeting would be in- ! formed of the basis for such a study by a management (consultant firm.