TRANSPORT BOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 504, 6 November 1928, Page 1

TRANSPORT BOARD

“END OF PAROCHIALISM” ONEHUNGA’S NOMINEE The question of the steps the Onehunga Borough Council should take with regard to nominating members of the Transport Board was introduced at the meeting of the council last evening, when Cr. Lipscombe asked whether the council should not “elect” its member that evening. The Mayor, however, informed him that the' election was not yet due, but if the council thought it advisable, to nominate somebody he saw no objection thereto. He thought that one nominee should be a resident of Onehunga, and the second representative should be chosen from one of the out-: lying suburbs now without transport facilities. The town clerk said that the poll would not be effective until it had been gazetted, and that there was plenty of time before the nominations would close. Cr. Carlton: Pick your men to-night. Crs. Lipscombe and Hill then proposed and seconded Cr. F. S. Morton, and Crs. Carlton and Lipscombe proposed and seconded Cr. R. G. Speight. Cr. F. S. Morton gave it as his opinion that local bodies would nominate one of their own members and one of another body. Onehunga was the most important body in its area, and if Onehunga secured a good service the other suburbs would get the same. “As soon as the board functions,” he said, “the parochial spirit will entirely disappear. I predict that then the transport service will be 100 per cent, efficient. Onehunga has a prior claim to representation on the board, and its delegate will see to it that the outlying districts will receive impartial treatment.” Cr. T. Moor considered that, by nominating two representatives, both would be defeated. The nominations of Crs. Morton and Speight were approved.