HOKITIKA NEWS
(Per United Press Association.) HOKITIKA, August 26. The Canterbury delegation for the Progress League, the Industrial Association, and the Chamber of Commerce, after spending some days in the district visiting the, mines and other centres, was to-night given a public reception in the Town Hall. Various speakers dealt with disabilities under which the district suffers, and industries that apparently could profitably be developed here owing to the quantity and cheapness of coal, water power, and the ingredients for the manufacture .of cement and carbide calcium and other by-products. The delegates regarded the non-completioh of the Buller Gorge line as a national crime, and stated that they would do all in their power to urge the completion in order to make marketable the coal and timber resources locked up there. Resolutions were carried congratulating the Minister for Public Works o,n tho acceptance of a tender for the electrification of the Otira tunnel; urging the completion of the Buller Gorge railway; and supporting Canterbury’s claim for a school of forestry.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160739, 27 August 1920, Page 3
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170HOKITIKA NEWS Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160739, 27 August 1920, Page 3
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