Association to invite all S.I. mayors to opening

Press, 9 October 1982, Page 5

Association to invite all S.I. mayors to opening

The opening of the South Island promotion office in Auckland on November 5 may be greeted by the jangling of mayoral chains.

The South Island Promotion Association will invite every South Island mayor and chairman of councils to the opening and ask them to wear their chains of office.

The opening of the office

by Sir Hamish Hay would be followed up on November 4 by a South Island supplement to appear in the “New Zealand Herald," a meeting of the association’s executive council has been told. The chief executive. Mr T. J. Mains, said that a minimum length of three pages had been set for the supplement, of which half a page would be advertising bv S.I.P.A. “In addition, the Minister of Tourism has announced that a subsidy of up to onethird of the cost of advertising a region collectively would be granted by the Government," Mr Mains said.

The president of 5.1.P.A.. Mr H. J. Walker, said that Air New Zealand had agreed to carry eight mayors from the South Island free of charge to the opening. Mr G. Ramshaw, of Queenstown, said that he thought that supporters of S.I.P.A. in Queenstown would get "more feedback" from their regional chairmen than from a mayoral representative. The Auckland office will be managed by Mr Alan Lloyd. Road completion S.I.P.A. will consult the South Island Local Bodies' Association regarding the Karamea to Collingwood

road and the possibility of related, but separate lobbying efforts to get the road under way. Mr Walker read a letter from the former Minister of Works and Development, Mr Quigley, in reply to one from S.I.P.A. earlier this year. Mr Quigley said that the position regarding the road was unchanged — the development was practical, but the construction costs were too high. Mr Walker and Mr Mains will approach .the District Roads Council to enlist its support. Jaycee conference S.I.P.A. was urged to take advantage of the Jaycee International conference to be held in Christchurch next vear.

Mr R. G. Sinclair, a conference adviser, who was world president of Jaycee International in 1971. said that of the 1500 to 2000 delegates who would attend the conference, about 25 per cent would be from overseas. He estimated that about 500 Japanese delegates would attend.

"If there ever was a very good chance to have New Zealand better known then it is to a captive audience which in itself is anxious to know more, it is the Jaycee conference." Mr Sinclair told the executive council.