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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 36, 7 September 1889, Page 2

Tiie Local Government Committee submitted their report yesterday. The Committee regret the short time at their disposal has been quite insufficient to enable them to do more than collect general information, and discuss the subject referred to them ; and to decide that in their opinion it is very expedient that some new system of local government should be established, and that it should be framed with the following objects, namely: — (1) Decentralisation; (2) reduction in the number of local bodies ; (3) a definite and fixed relation between tue finauce of the General Government and that of the loc.il bodies; (4) The establishment of the local districts with the elective govering bodies, the districts to be comparatively few iv numher, find to be defined with due regard to community of interest and the national features of the country ; the four large cities of the Colony with their suburbs to be tnade separate districts, and the remainder of the Colony to consist of not more than 16 districts; (5) the constitution of local councils by election by the Borough and Couuty Council (or Road Boards where the Counties Act is uot in force) within each district, with provision that the Governor-in-Council may, where necessary, alter, for boundaries of any borough, county, or r-.ia-i hoar ilia r rist. The CpTQinit-tr-a rewriww'i tbsi. L

a committee should be set up early next session the further consideration of this subject. The report was laid on the table, and copies ordered to be sent to the various local bodies.