PROVINCIAL INTERESTS

Evening Star, Issue 25577, 1 September 1945, Page 8

PROVINCIAL INTERESTS

EXPANSION LEAGUE MEETS A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Otago Expansion League was held on Thursday evening, Mr G. J. Errington presiding over a representative gathering of members." In reply to the league's suggestion that fry. should be liberated in the Eraser River, the Otago Acclimatisation Society advised that the matter would receive attention when fry was available for liberation.—lt was stated by several members that the Acclimatisation Society had on several occasions liberated fry in the river, hut with irrigation in the summer time the river had run dry, with a conseQuent loss of young fish. Unless some arrangement was made to meet the position it seemed useless to stock the river with further quantities of fry. The Balelutha Borough Council wrote asking the' league to support its effort in pressing the Government for the immediate building of a weir and sludge gates at Hawea to control the flow of water in the Clutha River, and also for the generation of power. A survey, is to be made as soon as an engineer is obtained, and the Minister of Works has promised that a plan will be drawn up after the survey has been made.—The league decided to give the council all the help it could in seeing that the Minister's decision was implemented. Correspondence was received from Mr W. D. Nolan, of Upper Okuru, in which he advised the league of the completion of another link in tho road which is being constructed down the West Coast to Jackson's Bay. This section from the Haast River to within one mile of Jackson's Bay would, he said, prove a great boon to all Southern Westland settlers, besides opening up a new era of prosperity for. this isolated district.

Mr W. J. Bardsley. formerly of Dunedin, and. now of Wellington, forwarded for the information of the league a copy of the remarks passed by a. recent visitor to the Dominion, in which he advocated that tourist propaganda should be one of New Zealand's main exports.

The task of preparing for the reissue of the league's publication/ Pinturesoue Dunedin,' has now been completed, and a report that the matter was in the hands of. the. printer was received with satisfaction. The executive also authorised the president an* secretary to go into the question of making a reissue' of the publication 'Dunedin, New Zealand's Beautiful City.' - Eulogistic references were made to the manner in which, the Mayor (Mr D. C. Cameron) had organised the victory celebrations, and it was decided to convey to him the congratulations of the league. The Works Department was also commended for the manner in which the streets had been cleared of all debris.