COUNTIES CONFERENCE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2129, 11 July 1907, Page 2

COUNTIES CONFERENCE

Press Association. WELLINGTON, yesterday. Tile Counties Conference to-day discussed the question of loans anil subsidies for roads and bridges loans in respect of opened-up areas and areas not opened up. After a lengthy discussion it was resolved that this conference is against the proposed substitute for subsidies in the, Local Government Bill, and urges that subsidies should be granted on a graduated scale.

The Conference passed the following remits:— I That when road districts merge into a county the subsidy payable to such Hoad Board shall bo paid into the fund of the County Council, irrespective of tho £SOO limit; that the Government bo requested to take into consideration tho question of giving County Councils power to enter tho name of any defaulting ratepayer upon the county electoral' roll in force for the time being, with twenty-eight days’ notice, anything contained in the Counties Act, 1886, to tho contrary notwithstanding; that the time has arrived when tho powers conferred upon Borough Council under the Municipal Corporations Act as regards all drainage should be extended to County Councils; that where county offices are situated outside the county boundaries and the business of the county is conducted within such offices the same shall be sufficient to fulfil all requirements of the Bog Bogistration Act, as though tho offices ■""•re situated within the countv.