Mr. Coates Praises Local Authorities

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 250, 12 January 1928, Page 8

Mr. Coates Praises Local Authorities

GOOD WORK Doj, KICKS AND FAULTS (SUIT’S Special Reports?, WHANGAREI, "I wonder how many ordinary, everyday |jf e cognise the enormou* of good work which la do*** local authorities and the they have? For their werl< r get kicks and fault-finding. “I believe that with a agemeni we could get the local bodies,” stated th e Minister, the Right Hon. j. q -V' at Whangarei yesterday ate? 5 during the jubilee celebration * Whangarei County. He t u ■ - tribute to the work of locals before he unveiled the memori* let on which were the names c original members of the Kw ‘ County Council. The chairmen of county coast nothing in return for what tlx f he said. They go on in the SnJ of the public and the country , j their services freely and the sjC' which it was done should be ciated. Work on county councils and - lar local bodies was the for service in larger spheres. » Coates instanced many men . graduated through local bodies S Parliament. During the war period and afothe people of New Zealand had - at a speed, or at least a rate, certainly required investigaaa, curbing. The Local GoTeniLo&ns Board legislation had * passed, and had had the effect tf™. ing local body expenditure. The - applications before the board *2 the first nine months it was h, tion amounted to £3,800,000. Ther-l of £2,300,000 had been approfet' the board. Renewals had amount,! . £900,000. During the first six of its existence the board had vt £276,000. If the board’s judgment was k c much of the money proposed to ■ spent was unjustified, for the hiwas not there to hamper or to ctin. but it was there in the interests J the country and the community.