LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS
Sir. —We are now on the eve of our County and Municipal Elections and would- like to put a few foreo words before the electors of our County. In reading a few extracts from the recent Municipal Confer-? cnee a remit read "That the local Elections and! Polls Act should 1 be amended! to make party "Tickets" an illegal act." This remit was carried by 64 votes to 32. The Minister of Internal Affairs in his address to the Conference said 1 : Local Government must be maintained to the hill extent so that, it will play its nar-the important work of reeons will have to take the conflict is ended. Whilst tit© advocates of centralisation concentrate attention on the financial aspect of local bodies —nainting dismal pictures for the ratepayer of the cause of admi'nis-. tration. Hero they say is the cause of all your troubles and proceed to (Inscribe the gain in the direction if amalgamation with a contigious local body were agreed to; though it is never hinted that the debit charges are considerably greater than the cost of administration which has been the case as some of the Ridings have known to their cost with tlie* rise in rates and little to show for it. I would like to thank our Editor for his leading article of March 31, 1941, on Local Body Elections. H-a has set forth the full position "as you see it" of our Municipal Councils; but in his wisdom has left the community to work out their own salvation which is to put it mildly, to put up those candidates wit®! fljgi prepared to be progressive in thieir methods and canry out the* will o£ their constituency! without feas favour, and leave the "Yes" men! out of the picture. Finally I would ask my readers to consider the report i!n the N.Z. Herald of Mar-ch' 4 in which the Minister of Internal Affairs refers to the reconstruction! of local Government by councils absorbing into their districts Town Boards Drainage Boards be under the heading of centralisation. Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW.,
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 297, 23 April 1941, Page 4
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350LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 297, 23 April 1941, Page 4
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