PROPOSED CONFERENCE OF COUNTY COUNCILS.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1287, 4 May 1878, Page 3

PROPOSED CONFERENCE OF COUNTY COUNCILS.

In accordance with a resolution of the Westland County Council which we published some days ago, the following letter has been addressed by Mr Eobinson, the County Chairman, to all the County Councils in New Zealand: — County Council Chambers, Hokitika, Westland, April 23rd, 1878. Sir, —At a meeting of this Council held on the 11th instant, it was resolved that I should bring the desirability of holding a conference of County Councils before you, and I have now the honor of doing so, and of stating that I should be glad to be favored with your Council’s views on the subject. The questions to be brought under review at such a conference are many, and several of them of the highest degree of importance—especially those relating to the maintenance of main roads, the construction of large bridges, and other public works, which properly should devolve on the Comity ; the various matters affecting the finances and revenues of counties, and the support of charitable institutions in counties. In replying to this letter I would thank you to indicate subjects which seem to you to require special attention at the proposed conference, and to suggest the town at which, in your opinion, it should assemble. In consequence of the rumored intention of the Government to bring about a separation in

the administration of the Government in the two islands, it is desirable that the conference should assemble as soon as possible. This Council suggests Wellington, and the end of May next as the place and time of meeting. I have the honor to be, sir, Your obedient servant, Henry L. Eoiunson, County Chairman, Westland.