EXPANSION LEAGUE

Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 7

EXPANSION LEAGUE

The Executive Committee of the Otago Expansion league met on Wednesday night, Air Chas. Todd presiding. Amongst the correspondence was a letter from Mr A. E. Usherwood, president of the -Overseas Club, accompanying a wonderfully variegated collection of town pennants as used in a number of American cities upon festive occasions. Mr Usherwood suggested that Dunedin might be induced to also adopt a distinctive pennant. The league thanked Air Usherwood for his exhibit and suggestion, but thought that it might, be better that some body like the Alotor Association be asked to take up the project. Another interesting letter was an invitation from the Pan-Pacific Union at Honolulu to send a representative*of the league to the Commercial Congress to be held in the “Cross Roads of the Pacific” on October 25, 1922. This meeting would consist of some 150 delegates from Pacific lands, and would be of great interest to the commercial community. The league regretted that it, could not accept the invitation to send a delegate direct, but may t arrange for someone passing through Hono- | lulu to act on their behalf. Mr D. Jolly, Alayor of Cromwell, met the executive and asked its assistance in bringing more pressingly before the commercial and general public of Dunedin the claims and potentialities of the Central area. In this connection he mentioned that an agricultural and horticultural show would be held in Cromwell on Alay 20, and requested the league to invite a number of leading citizens who would take an interest in the settlement and irrigation problems of the Central to come up and see for themselves. The party will be taken over the district by Cromwell residents and shown what irrigation and closer settlement can do. He also instanced the necessity of encouraging the tourist traffic to Lakes Hawea and Wanaka, and thanked the league for the splendid service already rendered in that direction, but urged that, in conjunction with the Tourist Department, they should make a further effort to popularise these scenic resorts. —Executive undertook to take up- the matters put forward by Mr Jolly and endeavour to secure the improvements requested.