WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2962, 13 August 1878, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Monday.

The County Conference to-night adopted a report that reserves be vested in County Councils for ferries, canals, wharves, rivers, or lakes, landing-places for timber or other material, stone quarries, pounds, planting reserves, water-races, certain police reserves in excess of police requirements which would be useful for carrying stock when travelling, gravel pits, with, power to delegate management of same to road districts; commonages, goldfields, mining reserves, subject to right of mining thereon ; that the following reserves in local boards, other than counties or road boards, recreation reserves, race courses, botanical gardens, cemeteries, abattoirs, industrial schools, charitable institutions, river protection and reserves for drainage or municipal purposes; that the Governor should retain reserves for railways, tramways, telegraph lines, townships, and light houses. The Conference was still sitting.

This day.

At the County Conference to-day the question of maintenance of hospitals by Counties, with a Government subsidy of pound for pound, was fully discussed and only negatived on a division by the casting vote of the Chairman, although his other vote was with the ayes. It was resolved that auctioneer and other license fees should belong to the County in which they were collected, but if the license is used in more than one county or borough, license fees shall be divided amongst such bodies. That when a road board shall fail to elect trustees and governing body, then such road district shall merge into the County. That whenever '* the owner of land cannot be found, all rates overdue shall be charged against the land. A committee was appointed to draw up, a final report. .