Regional Planning.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3970, 14 October 1930, Page 5

Regional Planning.

INCLUSION OF QUEENSTOWN. TOWN PLANNING BOARD’S REASONS. When asked if anything was being done in connection with the dispute over the inclusion of Queenstown in the Southland regional area (says the S. Times Parliamentary reporter), the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle) said that he had gone into the matter and had written to the Invercargill City Council. Ho said that inter alia his letter had advised the council that in recommending the inclusion of the Queenstown district in the Southland regional area, the Town Planning Board had acted on the clearly expressed views of the Queenstown Borough Council and Lake County Council and what it considered to be weight of evidence in regard to community, social and economic interests tendered at the Invercargill and Dunedin inquiries.

DISCUSSED BY OTAGO EXPANSION LEAGUE. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Otago Expansion League on the 30th ult., correspondence in regal'd to the regional town planning from the City Corporation was read. together with a letter from the Chamber of Commerce. In this connection, members expressed themselves as strongly opposed to the partition of the historic province of Otago in the manner proposed by the director of town planning, contending that portions of the country which had been so long associated with the province should remain under the new dispensation. Regret was expressed by members at the failure to meet the chiefly interested local bodies at previous meetings, but it was trusted that a determined effort would still he made to remedy the mistake, and bring the new boundary into keeping with the original one. The action of the president was endorsed heartily by the meeting.