WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1564, 7 October 1912, Page 3

WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

HARBOUR EMPOWERING BILL. (By Tclccrapli.—Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, October 5. Furth'jT discontent with tho -.Harbour Board Empo.verin» bill was manifested nt a meeting of Iho \V 7 anganui County Council yesterday afternoon. The complaint, however, was not as against the principle '.ot tho Bill, but against iome of its details, !which ■ivei-e : 'dccliil'e_d"tJ ln bo T«ry unfair. Finally, two reeolutiji a were carried. One was: "That this council protests against the attempt in the Vfanganui Harbour Bill to infringe the franchise prescribed by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, and.to substitute the principle of one ratepayer one vote, notlinithstanding that the Local Bills Committee of the House oi Parliament has alreuly decided, that the inothod laid doivn in the Counties Act should be adhered to." The other resolution was: "That the attention of tho Government ho drawn to the unfairness of the representation proposed in the Wangnnui Ilarbour Bill, ims'inch as the combined districts, with a valuation of not nnrc than ouetliird of the whol? area, will have a majority upon the board." ;