MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT.
The drastic provisions or the Municipal Corporations Act in reference to the liability of Councillors for work directly or indirectly done for a municipality, fs likely to rob local governing bodies of many of their best members. It would appear that almost every local body in the Dominion is affected, and, if the law is rigidly enforced, there will be sonie difficulty in inducing business men to accept responsibility in connection with local government. In these days of strenuous competition, men arc not going to sacrifice their private interests entirely for those of the public. It is unreasonable to expect that they should do so. The law, as it now stands, is altogether too drastic. In its attempt to secure clean administration and to prevent corruption, the Legislature has gone to' extremes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10152, 23 December 1910, Page 4
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135MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10152, 23 December 1910, Page 4
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