"SOME HOPE, BUT NOT MUCH."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 860, 5 July 1910, Page 4

"SOME HOPE, BUT NOT MUCH."

MUNICIPAL REFORM. The Hon. D. Buddo (Minister for Internal Affairs), in a letter to Mr.' T. I' 1 . Martin, secretary and counsel to the Municipal Association, acknowledges receipt of a letter forwarding copies of 13 Bills prepared and .printed by the association, and resolutions passed at previous conferences, and asking that legislation might be introduced this session to give effect to the said resolutions, etc. The Minister stales that the suggestions of the association are being considered in connection witli tne Government's new Alunicipal Corporations Bill. The suggestions regarding amendments to these Acts would be considered when Bills to amend those Acts were being prepared. When the letter was road at the municipal conference yesterday morning, thu president (Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P.) remarked: "It gives tho association some hope, but not much." The Bills that were sent to the Minister by Mr. Martin were the following:— Municipal Corporations Amendment, Municipal Corporations Amendment Regulations, Rating Act Amendment, Tramways Act Amendment, Hospital and Charitablp Institutions Act Amendment, Local Elections Act Amendment, Local Bodies Loans Act Amendment, Mining Act Amendment, Public Health Amendment, Cemeteries Act Amendment, Auctioneers Act Amendment, Slaughtering and Inspection Act Amendment, .Public Works Act Amendment.