THE COUNTIES BILL.
Beported Alterations.
[our PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER.]
Wellington, This Day,
In the hope that the Counties’ Bill may be push on this session, the Committee (of which Mr McN'ab is proving a vigilant chairman) set up for the purpose of “ liking ” the measure into shape are sitting daily. Lobby gossip has it that the bill will bo unrecognisable when it is reported on. All tho political portions have been removed from the measure with the exception of the qualification for voting, and that has yet to be dealt with. Unfortunately the bill is not a consolidating measure but a scheme based upon the union of the different local bodies so that the Committee will find a difficulty in suggesting, after its extensive alterations, that it be proceeded with as a consolidated of tho existing aw.
Mr Martin, secretary to the Municipal Assopiation, who lent valuable aid to the committee, which went through the Municipal Corporation Amendment Bill, will attend the daily deliberations of the local Government committee,
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 October 1901, Page 3
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168THE COUNTIES BILL. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 October 1901, Page 3
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