DEPUTATION WILL MEET MINISTER OVER WAITAKI SCHEME.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18339, 16 December 1927, Page 5

DEPUTATION WILL MEET MINISTER OVER WAITAKI SCHEME.

In accordance with the resolutions passed at the conference held on Wednesday to discuss the future electric power sxipplv of Canterbury and North Otago, Mr P. R. Climie. organiser of the Canterbury Progress League, despatched telegrams to the Hon W. Downie Stewart, Minister of Finance, and the lion K. S. Williams, Minister of Public Works, asking when they could receive a deputation regarding the need for expediting the Waitaki power scheme. Mr Stewart has replied stating that he will be coming south to spend Christmas at Temuka and will be willing to receive a deputation then. Accordingly it has been left with Mr R. B. Bell, of Timaru, to make arrangements for the deputation to wait on Mr Stewart at a convenient time, either in Timaru or Temuka. Mr Williams replied that he was going north and would be unable to receive a deputation until the New Year. He added that he was fully alive to the importance of the Waitaki scheme and the need of an early increase in the supply of power. Mr Climie informed a reporter that

j he had replied to the Minister making it clear that the conference thorough I ly appreciated his sincerity of purpose and that he desired to push ahead as speedily as possible with the Waitaki scheme, but that it was felt that it would be better if the investigation of each of the sites for the dam was proceeeded with simultaneously. The deputation will be arranged immediate! v after the holidays.