AN IDEAL MUNICIPALITY.
What is an ideal municipality? Dr Purdy, District Health Officer, made some inter3sting remarks on this head at a recent meeting of a Road Board near Auckland. He compared a properly ruir municipality with an unlimited Liability company engaged in an enterprise in which every citizen was a shareholder, ami of which the dividends were rcceivaule in the improved health anJ an increase in the comfort and happiness of the community. The member) the Council wore the directors, with the Mayor as chairman of the great business, and! their fees.* consisted in the confidence, the consideration, and the gratitude of those amongst whom they lived. Dr Purdy is certainly right in the view he takes, but there is reason to fear that the fees of the directors are often very small —in fact gratitude is sometimes a minus quantity.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9109, 8 June 1908, Page 4
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142AN IDEAL MUNICIPALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9109, 8 June 1908, Page 4
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