MELBOURNE-BLUFF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18355, 24 March 1934, Page 5

MELBOURNE-BLUFF

, • CONNECTING SERVICE MR. SAVAGE PROMISES t - HELP *:• ■ ; • f i (Per Press Association.) Invercargill; this day. The Loader of tho Opposition, Mr. M. J. Savage, who has been making a tour of Southland, was entertained at . luncheon yesterday by the Invercargill ..Chamber of Commerce. He was weleomed by • the president, Mr. C. B. Taplcy, who referred to the BluffMelbourne; service and said it w-as the (hope of the Chamber that the Melbourne centenary celebrations would resultin'its reinstatement. i ‘ We want the tourist service here,’ ’ ho! said. “We. have no outlet. This Is .practically , the deadend of New Zealand. We. are not gsking for something for nothing. We have much to offer, including the finest tourist re sorts in tho country. ’ ’ “I can’t understand why the service should have been stopped,” said Mr. Sayage, after acknowledging the President’s welcome, “Of course a vessel sank, but I cannot think that that should be the end of things. I don’t look on, Southland as a dead end. I represent an Auckland constituency, Hut I do not look at New Zealand through Auckland spectacles. At any rate, what affects Southland inust affect New Zealand, and Auckland with it. I have toured your province in tlhe last few days, and 1 ' realise its immense resources, and anything I can do to help New Zealand by linking Melbourne with Bluff will bo done. I’m not talking politics when I say that, but pure economics, because it is ,not economic to leave a province •with Such potentialities without any outlet. I promise yon that I will support the connection of Melbourne with Bluff. >r ... . , .