MAN WHO HUSTLED THEM

NZ Truth, Issue 1229, 20 June 1929, Page 6

MAN WHO HUSTLED THEM

FOR ten years "Hughie" Doogan was like the voice of one crying m the wilderness. He wanted electricity for Greymouth. He pushed his pet scheme until he .got people to "stop, look, and listen." The result was that a Power Board was £et up and "Hughie" was- elected its first /chair--man. Things moved quickly. Grey district has got its current and the board has never looked back. "Hughie". is, not on the board, but the -members give him full Credit for initiating; and., fathering electricity .

for Greymouth. He ' retired from civic' life- when other claim's on his time asserted themselves, and carried under his arm a framed photograph of the- council of which he .was last a ; member, which the Mayor handed him recently. •

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