MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1921, Page 5

MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

A VARIETY OF RESOLUTIONS. BUSINESS CONCLUDED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Municipal Association to-day passed a remit urging that in future all pigs sold for human consumption shall be killed and inspected at public abattoirs. In view of Anzac Day coming within a day or two of the municipal elections, it was recommended that the elections should take place on the first Wednesday in May, and that the new councils should take office a week after that dav.

It was resolved that power be given to borough councils to raise loans by special order without taking a poll ot the ratepayers for the payment of compensation in cases of land taken, dedicated, or purchased for widening streets, the debentures issued in respect of such loans to be legal currency for the purpose of such payments, provided that the total amount of the loans so raised shall not exceed the sum of £5OOO in one year. Other remits passed to-day urged that local authorities should have power to acquire compulsorily, any easement required for the construction of a public work; also for an increase of fees payable in the third schedule of the Impounding Act, and for increased contri- ■ buttons from the State to the funds of Fire Boards.* The conference protested against the tendency of Government departments to amend provisions of the Statues affecting local bodies by regulations and Or-ders-in-Gouncil. It was also urged that borough councils be given special powers for raising loans without a poll for street widening purposes, and that it be made compulsory to issue competency certificates to afll drivers of motor vehicles. The next conference will be held at Christchurch, the date to be fixed by the executive.