COUNTY COUNCILS CONFERENCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 596, 23 August 1913, Page 5

COUNTY COUNCILS CONFERENCE.

IMPORTANT REMITS

STATE ADVANCES ACT

At the County Conference, which wa3 held this week at Wellington, a remit was carried to the effect that the Customs Act be amended to admit road rollers and road making machinery free, and also that the Government be urged to take off the duty and extra railage on Australian hardwood. It was decided to ask the Government to make provision m tiie Counties Act empowering councils to re-

ceive deopsits in the same manner as 11 provided by the Municipal Corporations Act. It was agreed that tbe attention of the Government be drawn to the fast that as far as local bodies are concerned the State Guaranteed Advances Act has failed in the purpose for ft which it was created. The conference decided to draw the attention of the Government to the serious inconvenience and in some cases pecuniary loss experienced by counties as the result of the action of the Commissioners of Crown Lands withholding the monthly statement of Grown lands said, leased, forfeited and surrendered from the counties within whose boundaries such lands are situated. and that the conference request the Government to issue instructions that such information be furnished 33 heretofore

It was decided that Government bs aßked to make some batter provision for the work of constructing and maintaining roads leading to pastoral runs, especially when subdividing them, and also that r.c person ether than a ratepayer be entitled to vote upon any proposal for the raising of loans, whether for harbour works or for any purpose.