TUNNEL ROAD SCHEME.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20603, 2 May 1935, Page 11

TUNNEL ROAD SCHEME.

Support Voiced by Candidate for Harbour Board. It was a chance remark that resulteci in Mr Charles Ogilvie finding himself nominated as a candidate for the Harbour Board. He told a meeting at Papanui last night that he had said that the men who served on the Harbour Board should be the men who used the port. It was at once pointed out to him that he nsed the port very largely, and, as a result, he had been nominated. “And in the past few days,” he said, “I have learned more about the Lyttelton Harbour than I had believed possible.” He said that the Lyttelton Harbour Board was in the exceedingly fortunate position of having plenty of money, and had no money worries. lie briefly described the reclamation work at the port and said that the expenditure of £50,000 on cranes in the next few years would make the port, for the Work it had to do, one of the best to be found anywhere. He drew attention to the fact that the trepd of shipping was more and more towards the tourist traffic and said that the Harbour Board should set itself out to attract some of that traffic. With world trade in the condition it was and with the substantial decline, that had taken place in imports, little increase in shipping from the former sources was to be looked for for some time. Mr Ogilvie suggested that attention might well be given to the completion of the tunnel road. The cost would be, say, £150,000, and of that sum he suggested that £50,000 might be found by the Harbour Board, £50,000 by the Unemployment Board and £50,000 by |

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