MUNICIPAL ARSOCVATION CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 255, 23 July 1919, Page 9

MUNICIPAL ARSOCVATION CONFERENCE

The remits to be moved on behalf of the Wellington City Council at the fourteenth annual conference of the New /ealaud Municipal Association, to bo ..held in Wellington; are as follow:— Setting Buck Frontages on Subdivision. —That scction 117 of tho-Public Works Act, 1808. be repealed, or in tho alternative that it be amended so as to give the council the right to approve of tho dedication.—(Carried in 1012 and I'JM.) Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards.— That the present system'ol' hospital administration, imdor which the Government and local bodies liavo to raise the monev -that is needed, and the boards, without: any effectivo control or responsibility", are privileged to spend it, is highly unsatisfactory. That an amendment of the law. is urgently required which will nrovido for the representation of the Government and local bodies on the boards in approximate proportion to-their rnsncctive contributions. ■ That the present system of subsidy from the Consolidated "Fund is arbitrary and inequit-able.-and should be placed on a just and uniform basis.

Slrins for Pedestrian Access.—That any oitv or largo borough with the consent of the Governor-in-Conneil shall liavo nower to accept dedications of strips of land, for the purpose of giving pedes-, trians access from one street to another, and. those strips shall-not in any way be considered as..si reefs or treated as giving (milding frontages. There is also a suggestion from Wellington that there should be special legislation for the cities and larger boroughs on the ground that they require wider nowers than the smaller boroughs.—This was referred by the Kxeentive 'Committee to tlie conference.