COUNTY COUNCILS CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 150, 19 July 1901, Page 2

COUNTY COUNCILS CONFERENCE.

PUR PRBWS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, July 18. The C unties Conference made g> od progress with the review of the Counti' a Bill this morning, but s'.ill has over 200 chutes to consider. It wss resolved that t h i revising committee b' instructed to maka it quito clear that local bodies will btill have power to borrow money under the G >vi rnment Loans to Locul Bodies Act. The Conference uiianimi usly agreed that the resuming officer and cleik to thL ; c ns : Dg Committee shou'.J be appointed by the County C <ur.cil or Councils concerned, irstetd of by the Government. The amount available for extraord'nary expenditure was increased from £SO io £IOO, Lateb, Coneidi rab'e timn was spent iu considering section 25 of the Bill, givir g County Cmnci's arbitary powers for deiling with roads, their cors'ructior and maintenance, cu f side the Pu'lie Wo ks Act. Sovural clatss'.s which were considered too string, nt w«rt r'truck out. The chief question was as to how town districts atd rural districts wou d bp respectiv. ly affected by cer tiiin clauses rafsrring to the cu'.tiog op of land into allotmonts and roading it. Seoticn 200, providing that in c. r',ain caf.es tha Government rcay deckre u re.d in a borough .to be a county road, waa sfruck out, the Conference being unanimous on this pMnt. It was resolved to strike out sec iot> 220, making county cjuncitlois liable foi ponnltios for laying out to; ds hsi than the legal width.