LINKING UP.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 20 June 1924, Page 6

LINKING UP.

NORTH AND SOUTH CANTERBURY

Yesterday Mr P. R. Climie (organiser to the Canterbury Progress League), came to Timaru for the pur-pi.-.e of making arrangements prior to on the Timaru Borough Council next Alondav night to solicit the sympathy and practical support of that body iu connection with the extension of tiie work of the Canterbury Progress League to embrace South Canterbury. In conversation with a “Herald” reporter, Air Climie said that his visit was the outcome of the recent meeting which was held in Timaru, when dele gates, representative of North and South Canterbury met and decided that it would be in the interests of the whole of the province if the Canterbury Progress League extended its sphere of operations to include South Canterbury. And the decision of the Timaru Borough Council next Alonday night would decide whether the proposed linking-up of interests would become an accomplished fact. Referring to tho work of the League Mr Climie said it was trying very hard at present to get a second transmission line erected between Coleridge and ly maru, so that an end might be put to the inconvenience now suffered by limaru people here through the frequenu faults on the existing transmission line. The League hoped to persuade the De partment to erect a second line. Asked concerning the attitude of the League towards the Tekapo scheme All* Climie said that the League had not yet officially considered the Tekapo scheme, and he whs not, therefore, in a position to express an opinion, but lie knew of no feeling in Christchurch which was opposed to the Tekapo proposal. Hydro power would be one ol the first questions which the League would take up if it extended its sphere of activity to South Canterbury, and the second would be the publication of an attractive pamphlet setting forth the commercial potentialities and the scenic charms of this part of the Canterbury province. Quite recently the League had sent 50,000 copies of a pamphlet on North Canterbury to the Wembly Exhibition. This had cost nearly £IOOO, which sum had been readily given in North Canterbury fot this special purpose. Air Climie added that the Progress League had just completed a successful year, some of its most notable achievements being in connection with the completion of the East and West Coast railway *. West Coast trade: Coleiidge power supply;, telephone charges (in which connection it had saved the telephone users of Canterbury about £16,000); Christchurch-Lyttelton railwav improvement; advertising Canterbury; the completion of the boutn Island main trunk railway ; the district railway committee (in which particular remarkably good work had been done--work which it was proposed to extend to South Canterbury). In these and other wavs tile League had done a good deal for Canterbury, and if the people desired it to do so it would embrace South Canterbury in its future opera Climie will return to Christchurch to day.