LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10631, 9 May 1912, Page 5

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL

CONFERENCE IN MASTERTON. At a meeting representing the var-. ions local bodies in the Wairarapa district,, held fc'n ifche Masterton Coumity. iCouncU office yesterday afternoon If or the purpose of electing two delegates to attend a confercinoe hi Wellington to discuss the Local Government Bill', itfhe eihairman of the Wairarapa Hospital 'Board (Mr E. G. Eton) presided, and twenty-seven other delegates were' prose int.

Tlie chairman read a cominranieation from, the s Minister of Internal Affairs. stating that .it was not possible .to fcicreaise the representation of thedis-ii-ict(, without makfaig a general' in■breaee, and ithis would render the conference too unwieldy. Seircira'l suggestions were made as to the procedure of the meeting. Some, delegates wished' to disoiuis the Bill, 'while others (thought ithiat t.he delegates E'liouQd! keep to the matter for which the imeeting >was called— viz., to elect two delegatrs. One delegate characterised th? meeting as a'farce'And a' wasting of valuable.time. It was the general opinion that lilttle. good would be done Iby the conference, as the delegates present would aiot reflect the frpiniens of the local bodies concerned. Eventuality it wias decided to proceed wißh the lbiu,sine?s of electing the delegates., a.nd mot to discuss the Bill, as it wioirlid takb up too mitidi time and do Ittle good. Six mo.mfinat.iqne iwore received, and on a ballot being taken Mr W. J. Welch, dhiairman of the Masterton Couaity Clonuci'l, lieaded the List, and Meesrs A. D. MeLeod, chairman, of the Eeatlherstcai County Council, and W. lEuiho.r, of the Wairnrapa Hospital Beard, uvere eecond, receiving the same n.umiber of votes. A second ballot was itakl&n, anel ; Mr McLeod was elected 1 as the isecond delegate.