WANTS OF WESTPORT.
DEPUTATION TO MR MASSES - . [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] IVES'TPORT, Thursday. Another large public meeting was held in the Town Hall this evening, when ' the Mayor, Mr. A. Leaven read telegrams from the Prime Minister and Mr. H. Holland, M.P., requesting a deputation to proceed to Wellington as the Prime Minister could not at present visit Westport owing to stress of political duties. It was resolved that the Mayor, the chairman of the Harbour Board, the chairman of the County Council, and a member of the council, should go to Wellington in regard to the Harbour Board question, and also that the deputation urge the Prime Minister to proceed as rapidly as possible with the construction of the culler Gorge railway, so as to make available for the market large 'coal deposits in the gorge. The meeting expressea the hope that the Parliamentary party would make Westport •a port of call on the way to Samoa.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17375, 23 January 1920, Page 4
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