LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 205, 9 May 1912, Page 5

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL

CONFERENCE AT WANGANUI. By TelegrapliT-Presß Association. Wanganui, Wednesday. A conference of local bodies this morning appointed Mr. Mackay (Mayor of Wanganui) and Mr. Ritchie (chairman of the Wanganui County Council) to represent the bodies comprised in the tfa»ganui hospital district at the conference in Wellington. DISCUSSED BY EDUCATION BOARD. The Taranaki Education Board held a special meeting yesterday morning in order to consider the education clauses in the Local Government Bill and to elect its representative on the conference of local bodies, to be held on the subject next Tuesday. Mr. JT. Trimhle was in the chair, and • Messrs. A. H. Halcombe, W» Rogers, R. Masters, W. L. Kennedy, W. Young, and G. A. Adlam were also present. Detailing the suggestions embodied in the Bill, the chairman said that it was proposed to transfer the functions of the board to the Provincial Council. The Council would appoint a committee, to which three outsiders would be admitted, and this committee would have to report to thp Council. The capitation scheme would be done away with. The provinces would receive the rents from educational reserves (which would provide rajy three-sevenths of the revenue) within their area, and any balance required would have to come out of the general funds of the Couneil. The mode of election would be manhood suffrage, not as- the case at present, where only' ' tfi a; r S COU,(I ? te " To his mind there was no need to make these alterations but it might he an advanthe size of the education board districts wn.c norp 'liiiforir ve™ < : : - r,inio ". , nf Mr - the IZimode a bettor than it w-'.fe. and Provincial Conferences could have been held. Iheie were no two men in Taranaki who could represent all the bodies which were interested in the Rill. Education 1 u ot , bP <lriv<i " into 'ocalities but should be for the Dominion as a whole. Taranaki could not support it» education as a province. _ MOTION CARRIED. . ®. oard fhen carried the follow-motion:-—"That this Board views with manifest disfavor the outlined in the proposed Local Governespecially in so far a® the abolition of education boards is con'T 1 d f ms more suitable that the boards should have more extended svstem of 1 " t0 thcm ' wit ' h an aSßUr ed system of income.

NELSON BOARD'S VIEWS n fTJvi U ' r to the Board the secretary of the Nelson Education Board suggested" that-a conference of representatives of' . plication boards should be held in Wellington during the month of June to made tV V iT, at p prosclltationß b« made to the Government on this important matter. If fl majority of the hoards were favorable to holding the °Z fr- the Nelson ™uVbe Phased to make the necessary arrant ments, and suggested that the proposed conference should be held a week ortwo before the meeting of Parliament. "" ,0 "»» «»»% t l he «Pi ni «n of the chairman, it the / a ?i° to wait and see what , ~ conference of local fon fb Tl-' !n f t0 . n was ' Tn *»'» opto*he poj'tical situation was at present m such an unsettled state that the Government could not put the Bill' through the House. IJ ' „3 fa,, i n / 'n with the chairman's sueTf +L i came mt ftf the hands of the conference at Wellington, if would be unrecognisable. , Ad,nm - and Mor^' !, Cffiforpiioc hciri'; held.* finallr the Board decided that it wa» JSSt thnt thh cour - " The meeting delrcr.ied Mr. A. Morton to it at the conference to l£ d at New Plymouth on Tuesday.