The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1892. Elective Land Boards
Copies of the Land Boards Election Bill have been distributed. The Bill provides that each land board shall consist of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the district and not fewer than three, nor more than four other members, all of whom, excepting the Commissioner, shall be elected simultaneously with and in the same manner as members of the House of Representatives. Every person qualified to vote for a member of tbe House may also vote at elections of members of land boards, and every such person, and no other person, shall be eligible to be a member of a land board. The electoral districts under the Bill are to be the same as under the Representation Act. The members of a Land Board shall take office on the clay appointed for the return of writs at a general election of members of tbe House of Representatives. The second reading of this Bill will be proposed by the Hon J. McKenzie in a few days, and when that has been agreed to the Bill will be sent to the Waste Lands Committee. In connection with the above the Nelson Mail says a good many people will regard it as a doubtful benefit. This is a country of many popular elections. It is already almost impossible for the most retiring and modest man to escape being a representative of the people in some shape or form. We hive already separate popular elections for Parliament, Town Councils, Mayors, County Councils, Road Boards, Rabbit Boards, School Committees, and Licensing Committees. Possibly there may be some more, but whether there be or not it is the case that in thinly peopled districts almost every man who is at all well known is sure to be a representative of the people for some purpose or another. On our part we think that one more election would matter very little. The present mode of appointing only persons "of th» right color " on the boards is in the highest degree objectionable.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 26, 18 August 1892, Page 2
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344The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1892. Elective Land Boards Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 26, 18 August 1892, Page 2
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