MR RUSSELL IN WAIMATE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLII, Issue 12821, 17 April 1916, Page 1

MR RUSSELL IN WAIMATE.

During ;the Hon. Q. W. KusselTs visit to Waimate on Friday, Mr AVhatman, on behalf of the" Waihaorunga settlers, asked .the MTnister~to':ul'g<J''his colleagues to put the_work of the Waihao Downs railway' extension -in hand as.soon as the funds were available. .■ • , '..: .'.: .'■•- ;

This the Minister promised -to!do, realising that .the Jneed: was' urgent. Mr Dash, ;<jn behalf :o'£ the Waimate Temperance TOEnion.'-lurged -the .Minister to use his influence to bring about v -the «' o'clock closing "of. hotels! ,Be -wassnppo'rted the Re>\..'Mi>rr.isoh piid -Messrs Stewart and 1 Dohrmanii. .=:- In reply, the.;: Minister said, it. was not a matter for Cabinet! hut, for Parliament to deal with. lAt.the same time lie reminded the various speakers that the e'arly"closing' would"not airect-them, and he did! "not think.it. w£s, right for any one. seeking;'.. id patting taxles or"'restnctibns~Von anything:, ibat was going the other, fellow. He did hdfc Want them to take that as a reproachi, and he would-tell his. colleagues of the ilarge.apdi representative deputation. " " _ In the evening the Hon. Mr Russell: was a* puoJiir Sinner", at which the 7 Deputy' Mayor" (Dr'- E, C.~ Hayes) .and .amongst those present were'afr J. Anstey,; MT.P.. the Mayoress (Mrs-Noyton"Erancis)."'memr hers of theirßbrougir; Cburi'dil, and" a large number of'influential citizens and their .'-- " ' .*"'"*'*'"'". '•"