REMITS APPROVED
LOCAL BODIES’ CONFERENCE P.A. INVERCARGILL, Dec. 4. The .fifth annual conference of the South Island Local Bodies’ Association ended to-day. An invitation to hold the 1948 conference at Westport was accepted.
Remits were approved that the Government be urged to link the Nelson railway section with the rest of the South Island system; to construct a line from Westport to Charleston, and to extend the railway from Ross to Wataroa; that the Minister of Railways be urged to make arrangements for the early introduction of oil-burn-ing locomotives on the South Island lines; that the Postmaster-general be asked to arrange for mails to be made available at all rural post offices six days a week; that it be a recommendation to the Government that the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, be simplified so that local bodies may more easily have lands within their areas cleared of noxious weeds; that the Government be urged to lift the sales tax from all transport and machinery purchased by local authorities for the construction and maintenance of roads.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26636, 5 December 1947, Page 6
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174REMITS APPROVED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26636, 5 December 1947, Page 6
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