TOO MANY BOARDS
("Post" Special Commissioner)
STRONG PROTEST AGAINST CREATION OF AN OTHER MQUNTAIN GUIDES BILL
WELLINGTON, Monday. Speaking on the second reading of the Mountain Guides Bill in the Legislative Council, Sir Francis Bell protested against the proposal to set up another board. The position was getting intolerable, he said, and the time would arrive when every decent man in the country would be a member of some board or other. The Hon. J. A. Hanan supported Sir Francis Bell's protest and said it .would be difiieult to know where they were. getting to. He suggested that the leader of the Council should send the Bill to a committee, otherwise he would have to vote against the
measure, The Hon. L. M. Isitt said he could not see why provision could not he made that persons desiring to go ip for dangerous elimbing shpuld obtain permits. The leader of the Council, Sir James Parr, said he had b.een impressed with the protests made and hefore the' Bill was eommitted he would discuss the matter with the officers of the Department. In committee on the Bill Sir James Parr accepted an amendmePt deleting the provision in the Bill for the estahlishment of .a board. The Bill was then put through the remainihg stages and . passed. ' •
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 67, 10 November 1931, Page 5
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