"SHELVE THE BILL"

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 789, 9 October 1929, Page 6

"SHELVE THE BILL"

TRANSPORT AMENDMENT CITY COUNCIL’S ATTITUDE With a few dissentients, the City I Council last evening supported the executive of the Municipal Association | in its endeavour to have the lrans- ! port Law Amendment Bill shelved \ until next session. ; The executive asked the council to urge Auckland members of Parliament « that the Bill should not be proceeded with this session, in order to give local bodies time to consider it in detail. In moving that the action of the Municipal Association be endorsed, the Mavor, Mr. G. Baildon. said that the executive had examined the Bill very carefully and for good reasons had decided that delay was necessary. Certain interests were very anxious to Have the Bill put through, but he could not say how far its provisions were to the advantage of the general body of citizens represented by the municipalities. It was at least doubt--1 ful whether the interests of these people were being served, and he felt that the association was quite right in asking for delay. That the Bill was the prelude to an important measure which the Government intended to bring down next year was the view of Cr. T. Bloodworth. who said the transport situation urgently needed to be dealt with. Cr. G. W. Hutchison said that only part 3 of the Bill concerned municipalities. It was most, necessary that other provisions dealing with main highways, tyre and petrol taxes, motor vehicle registration and the like, should be put through without delay. He did not think that the municipalities would be justified in holding up the whole measure.