MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

Shannon News, 28 March 1929, Page 4

MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

REMITS CARRIED AT WANGANUI LIST OF REMITS.

. Following is .a further list of .remits considered at, the conference at Wanganui of Borough Council delegates:—

Diseased Dogs.—That authority be granted to a duly authorised,officer of a local authority to order .that the owner of any dog running at largo and suffering from infectious or contagious disease shall .cause same to be destroyed within seven days. (Wellington). Registration fee.—That .authority be

granted to a Magistrate or Justice of Peace hearing case regarding nonregistration of dog, to order that the registration fee shall also be paid, in addition to the fine and costs. (Wellington). Charges—Revision of: That the provisions of the Impounding Act, 1908, re charges for, feeding, driving and impounding stock, be amended so as to bring them into line with present conditions, also that pound-keepers be given power to deal . summarily with

valueless stock and that local bodies

owning pounds which are used by adjoining districts be given legal authority to charge such districts with a share, of the maintenance and poundkeeper's salary. (Onehunga). Committee: That the Government

be requested to devise some method of election whereby the large expenses incurred by local authoritis be avoided. (Feilding). Payment of Preliminary Costs Re Proposed Loans. —That Section 5 of “The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926,'' be amended to empower a local authority to pay the costs of the preliminary steps to be taken t as set out in sections 9 to 19 of the Act ofit of the loan.

(Christchurch). Main Highways in Boroughs.—That the Main Highways Board shall pay the whole cost of reconstruction and maintenance of streets* in Boroughs having a population of less than six

thousand which are main highways or continuation of main highways. (Green Island). Term of Office. —That in future the Mayor and Councillors term of office be for a term of three years instead of two as at present, and that the Act be amended acocrdingly. (Greytown). 1 Charges by Meter. —That Section 82 of the*" Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, be amended so that the charge for all water supplied to any property may be assessed either by rate or by

meter as the,!local..authority may decide. (Nelson). Special ...Order Loans.—That legislation be to enable Borough Councils to. raise ;by -special order, loans for putting in drainage and sanitary fittings to. ratepayers’, premises. (Onehunga).

Drainage. Rating.—That as sanitation is in the interest of the whole, community it would, be.fair and ■ equitable to equalise the Tate over the’ whole Borough and that a system somewhat similar to water rating is what is required. That apart from the special rates needed as security for a loan or loans, the Municipal Corporations Act be amended to enable Councils to strike a drainage rate or rates of such amount as the Council deems fit: (a) On all premises connected to the sewers and on .all premises on which there aro dwellings, shops, offices, factories, business premises, stables, hotels, or boardinghouses within one hundred feet of the sewers and 1 which could be but are not connected with the sewers, (b) and on all other lands and:premises a minimum rate of 10s, and that Councils be authorised to pay interest and sinking-fund on loans out of such rates. (Tauranga). .. Valuers to be appointed by Local Body.—That local bodies rating on the unimproved value be authorised to appoint their own valuers in’view of the extremely unsatisfactory results and high costs of the present system. (Onehunga).. '