UNDER THE CITY'S WING
_ f DAY'S BAY PEOPLE TIRED OF HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.
Sa.tnrcla.y's meeting of ratepayers and residents at Day's Bay was unanimously of opinion that tho time had come for ,tho district to- seek tho protection of the City of Wellington, and with that end in view to become part aiuT parcel .of the Empire City. A motion to that effect was proposed by Mr. A. W. Blair, seconded, and carried without dissent. The chairman of. the meeting, Mr. D. M. Findlay, said that the district had outgrown tho resources of ■ tho Hutt County Council, from which it received very little in the way of expenditure. County government was. really more for tho administration of broad acros than for closely settled districts. Henco it became necessary for growing communities to launch out for themselves as separate entities like town boards or boroughs, in ordof to work out. their civic salvation. The idea of a union with Wellington, he thought, was an excellent one, and one, moreover, which, the city, owning as it did two-thirds of the district . already, would not be averse to.
The matter is to be discussed at a deputation to tho Mayor on Wednesday morning.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2915, 30 October 1916, Page 6
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200UNDER THE CITY'S WING Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2915, 30 October 1916, Page 6
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