MUNICIPAL REMITS
DEYONPORT SUGGESTIONS With the annual conference of the Municipal Association approaching the sending of remits 'by local bodies is proceeding. Devonport has suggested that where compensation for land resumed by a borough has been fixed by a court of law the borough should have power, subject to approval of the Loans Board, to raise such money without the expense of a poll. Another remit was a request for greater Government subsidy to municipalities in which there was a considerable. area of Government-owned land not paying rates. This point touches Devonport closely,* as almost one-third of the borough area is nonrateable for this reason. Mr. Massey, in suggesting a remit urging that at each election only some of the councillors should retire, said that in cases where the electors returned an almost entirely different council it must be exceedingly trying on the permanent officials “to break in a new set of councillors.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 8
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153MUNICIPAL REMITS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 8
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