COUNTIES' CONFERENCE

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13930, 8 July 1919, Page 1

COUNTIES' CONFERENCE

OHINEMURI COUNCIL'S REMITS At the last meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council, says the jGaizette, the clerk suggieetedi the following remits for the Counties' Association Conference to he held shortly: — . Main, Roads:—"That the Government be urged to take into immediate and serious consideration, some scheme by which the cost of construction and; maintenance of permanent arterial highways throughout the Dominion shall be a charge upon the' Consolidated Fund." -- Native Rates: —"That the present ' unsatisfactory conditions in connection with rates on- TSfiativ© >■ iandsi be • again brought uind&r the notice of the Government, and; it be requested! to introduce : legislatdoni which will give greater facilities in the matter of collecting ■ on these lands. - Hydro-Electric Power. —" That the urgent necessity for taking every ! step dn the directdo.ru of _ giving effect 'to the recommendations of the . Hydro-Electric Power Boards be brought before the .Government, and also 'that the supreme import- ' ance of making the vast hydraulic 'power now lying dormant in> '?11 parts of the "Dominion availaMe, in ', the form' of electric energy, to the puiblic at the earliest possible moment, be strongly urged." . ■ Hospital and Charitable Aid Ra<te. The chairman saiid that aoother matter in "oonnec'tiion mth .tbe rei mit» was the collecting of the hosjpital rate s . He thought that the ! hospital Boards should have the ' power to. strike arid cioUect their own> rates. In hi® opinion it would .be better if the Hospital Boards had power to strike and collect the rates. He moved to this effect. Cr. Robinson thought that the Hospital Boards would favour the proposals. Cr. Strange did not aigree with the proposal. j Cr. McGuire thought that > _ there ] was no. harm to send!' the remit for- ! ward. , It would opem uip.the jectThe resolution to forward the remit, a ar n-ronosed was ca,med.