TRANSPORT BILL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 468, 25 September 1928, Page 8

TRANSPORT BILL

BEFORE PARLIAMENT THIS WEEK CITY COUNCIL’S HOPES The City Council anticipates that the Auckland Transport Bill will be brought before Parliament this week, under the charge of the Prime Minister. r rilE Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, said, this A morning that the Bill would foJlow exactly the recommendations of the Transport Commission, and any alterations necessary would be left to the House. This is interpreted to mean that the area will include only the city pro, per, and that the representation on the board will give the City Council a majority. It will also mean that the board will have power to raise loans without a poll of ratepayers, so k that the first activity of the new board, if the Bill passes in this form, will be to consider raising some £600.000 now required fbr tram extensions and track work. The provision for ejection of members suggested by tho commission was that three years after the first election of members, onc-ltalf should retire. Those to retire sthould be onehalf of the members re resenting each of the three areas, the choice of retiring members to be determined by lot. Threafter an election should be held every three years, one-half of the representatives of each retiring.