INDUSTRIES AND SETTLEMENT.
The point has heen raised as to whether the Masterton Borough Council is. acting strictly within its functions in. setting up a committee to enquire into the matter of closer settlement and industries. The point would not' Ibe without strength were the ifnnc. tc'bns of civic -bodies under the Municipal Corporations Act confined to the maintenance and .construction of thor-ough-faros. The Legislature, in ji& wisdom, -has, 'however, made explicit provision Ifor the performance of public duties outside the. circumscribed area of street .formation. The Borough Cluneal has no power to pledge the public estate for the realization of .such projects as the purchase -of lands for settlement or the .establishment of. factories,. It has, however, JurisdictJbn over all matters making for the advancement of municipal! interests; and in the exercise elf this Jurisdiction in its fullest scope it lis to be commended. It would lie iai bad day for M-as-tertoni >i'f its civic, business were confined absolutely to a parochial aspect-
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10632, 10 May 1912, Page 4
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164INDUSTRIES AND SETTLEMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10632, 10 May 1912, Page 4
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