REFORMING LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
The following questions have been sent to chairmen and members of local governing bodies, with a request that answers be returned to the Colonial Treasurer : 1. Should county chairman be elected as mayors are ? 2. Should counties be enabled to split up or amalgamate or otherwise alter their boundaries without the consent of Parliament, as is now required ? 3. Should road districts in each county form ridings of county ? 4. Would you suggest any alteration in the mode of electing councillors ? 5. Can you suggest any new. duties which shonld be imposed, or new powers which should be conferred, on counties, more especially as to the power of making-bye-laws ? 6. Should the counties be enabled to create new road districts, or alter existing ones, of their own motion, or only on the petition of a majority of the ratepayers ? 7. Should the counties or the road boards have the power of altering the divisions and the numbers of the members of the boards ? 8. What rating powers should counties have ? 9. What rating should powers road boards have ? 10. If the operation of the Counties Act is suspended in any county, should road boards be enabled to excercise any of the powers of the county, and, if so, which ? 11. Should road board members hold office for a fixed time, and, if so, what ? or should a proportion retire every year? 12. Should road board chairmen be elected as mayors are ? 13. Is it desirable to allow of road board elections being held in open public
meetings, like those of school committees in districts where the rond board by special order adopts this plan ? 14. What alterations do yon suggest in the Rating Bill as sketched herewith ?' 15. Please state whether the provisions of the Roads Construction and Crown and Native Lands Rating Bills would suit your district ; if not, what alterations would you suggest which would make these measures more useful ?
16. Have you any suggestions to make generally on the matters dealt with in the circular in which this is enclosed ?
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Patea Mail, 19 May 1882, Page 4
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346REFORMING LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Patea Mail, 19 May 1882, Page 4
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