ELECTION COSTS
A LOCAL BODY PROBLEM WELLINGTON, Aug. I. During the year the Audit Office was on more than one occasion required in terms of the governing statutes to determine disputes regarding the proportion of the costs incurred by a Borough or County Council in conducting the elections of members of' Electric Power Boards or Harhour Boards, which should be borne by those Boards, says the annual report of the Controller and Auditor-General presented to Parliament to-day.
There is not only a. considerable diversity in the statutory provisions governing the allocation of election costs but there is also a great difference of opinion, amongst local authorities concerned in a combined election as to what are the reasonable additional costs of holding an Electric Power Board or Harbour Board election simultaneously with the election of their own members. It is desirable that the statutory provisions governing the allocation of election costs of the several classes of local authorities should be made uniform, and that a clear definition of what constitutes the reasonable additional costs of an election should be provided by regulation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1930, Page 5
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181ELECTION COSTS Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1930, Page 5
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