GRANTS TO LOCAL BODIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2180, 19 June 1914, Page 8

GRANTS TO LOCAL BODIES

■MIT limWftmAl PATRONAGE,

'.By fel^rtti-l*.—Press Association .N ■ felvrlstcliUfoli, Jmie 18.

In the coilrSe of. ft-n interview tti-day, the. Hon. 0. p. Boil said that the .principal worlt ot .tho coming .sesrfon-,. ho Imped, tfmihl bo- a refonn of the present system of malvtog gia-ats to .lQcaHiodies. Iu their first year of offjei} tho Rief.orm Gov-erumett.t had placed ..the. Cjflri Sir* vica beyg-i-id th» rea«h of paj-itica-l toflueii.ee, ftiid it \v.as hojied'-liotf to. Ho the samtj wit-Ji WgaJcl to grants -.to Local botiies. The mal'siiig of gi%n% wouW be romoved'.eivtirejy jfroifl. fcltq flclrl of Ministerial lia-tronage.. 'An ii-idepondent and impartial authority wiMiJd. be set irp to eoivsider and d<eal with sA a.pplioatioms lot ,'grattts.. Rogarding the v& format' the Upper House., Mr, 801 l said that the Goverhm-eirt *a.s absolutely decided that tltu liogislaiivfi Couiu-rl Refofafi liii'l would go through this session, o.ncl wotitd pass jlrto' law, 'flio RiW iw(fi.d he praetiea.il.v' the s-aiae as that introduced last Sftsstei. ftwi rejected.. The- .constitution of the new eo-uneii'would be .practically tho. same as tlfat prbjieseid,' for ' the Irish, Seriate by ±)ip liixpeftol (iofcrainout, The %m----.perial protiosal had 'hdCOlte ■law' since tfis iiT-tr'od'fiot'iQSj of the Mow'- Seafend Qov«riim.pnt's Bill, oa Avlii'eii it vas virtually based. The Irish' Seriate Proposals were, practically -those ol the ktiv« Gownoil Refoirm Bill af'• l9l2f''-m that.the ■cl.eet.icHjwottld. be oil .avbasis of pTO.portioi3.al reptesbntation «f' t'lio four big doctorates,'. lii this matter there was-a great simila-rity hetwexm Inland aitd New Zealand'. In Irpla-Jid'there were four Mot-8-ist*r., jjeinster, Ooi'iiia'i.ghtj. New ctfusi'sted • of two 'islaftas, ■eafthof wtwoh wo:s' na'tiiraily di-vMied iute two big. districts. .'Tfe Bysfeiii. p:Mpos.e4: was. thewfore., peeuferij' aafetptahfei to hoth,