Proposed Changes in Law.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1709, 15 May 1886, Page 2

Proposed Changes m Law.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.*) Timabu, Thursday A a meeting of the G&raldine County Council to-day, it was resolved to ask the Government— (l) To amend th« Hospital and Charitable Aid Act, so that Hospital Boards might make demands for contributions directly from Road or Town Boards ; or, if mad* through Councils, that they be given power, m case of default, to recover th« amount by legal process, or by striking a rate on the special districts refusing to pay., (2) That Councils be given power to adjust any expenditure to which they may become liable on »©• count of county boundary works among Road and Town Boards according to their respective rateable values. (3) That on account of serious losses con stantly taking place among sheepowners, caused by great numbers of dog* kept for sporting purposes, the registration fee be raised to £1 10s, shepherd's dogs only to bo excluded from the fee. (4) That local bodies be granted powers to lay poisoned grain or seeds on public arid private roads for the destruction of i : smali birds. (5) That the Local Bodies '•Finance and Powers Act, 1885; iafair m ■operation, and the best for giving '"assistance to local bodies to help to 'construct and maintain roads and bridges; and that the Couucil- ask for a renewal of the measure fbY a'period of not less than 13 years.