LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 295, 18 June 1895, Page 2

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.

The following is an outline of the above measure as given by the Premier at Boss : — "Education boards and school committees would not be interfered with, but charitable aid boards, hospital trustees, borough councils, and town Boards would be wiped out. There were works which now could not be done at all by local bodies which a central authority with an assured revenue could undertake. Now if a £100 was wanted for a road or track tbey had to go to the Government for it. Parliament was descending to the status of a road board, and it was time petty- fugging local authorities were wiped out. Their functions were things of the past, and they were actually as dead as Julius Ccesar. There would be much opposition to be encountered. He might even create ill-feeling in his own district, but would act as he believed to be right. He would not permit a larger centre to take revenue from a smaller centre. The subdiyision of governing districts must be carefully laid down. Neither must the revenue of one portion be spent in another. The whole of the scheme had been carefully thought out, but he could I not make a fuller statement, as the draft Bill had not yet received the assent of his colleagues. He would, however, persist in the matter until the Bill was finally passed into law." This contains much debateable matter.