LOCAL BODIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1921, Page 3

LOCAL BODIES.

PKOI’OSED LEGISLATION. MOTOR VEHICLES AND FINANCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Nov. 18. A conference of local bodies and other organisations called by the City Council to consider the Local Bodies’ Finance Bill and the Motor Vehicles Bill was held last night and approved the general principles that local bodies so conduct their operations that liabilities contracted and expendture made on general account be met by the yearly income. It was decided to protest against section. 3, which .prevents a local body from borrowing money by way of a temporary loan; that the clause and section 3 be amended to provide for such cases as an overdraft raised for matured loans and extraordinary expenditure; that provision be made for raising loans for public works by special order. In connection with the Motor Vehicles Bill, a resolution passed at the Municipal Conference opposing the provisions which provide that the registration and license fees be paid to local bodies, was adopted? It was decided that funds required for the construction and maintenance of highways be provided by means of a tyre tax on motors and a whefel-tax on other vehicles that at least two highway boards, one in the North Island and cue in the South, be constituted; that the scale of fees for licenses be fixed by the local bodies concerned, and that only ambulance vehicles 'be exempted from the tax.