LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10642, 24 May 1912, Page 5

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CONFERENCE «T WORK. (By Telegraph—Press Acsociatkm.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. ; At the Local Government Conference, the finding of .the Committee ftihiat a Loccrt Govenumeint Board be set nip wais thrown out on-the voices. 'rive discussion arose ovea* a query, of Which the original emanated from the Minister, as ..to".wbethtV the sanction of■', the -Local Government Boaird (or tnttlia event of it not being set. up, by the Gove.rnor-in-Oou.ncil) .should be -.necessary' ibefore a'tor.fc''was obtained- ' The Committee decided t»w.t the •sanction words were not nece&sary. The Hon.. G. W. Russell informal the Conference that he was not prepared to accept the responsibility ot limiting the borrowing powers of loeaU IX Mr s 'Pa,iT < Auckland) thought that (it was'useless .passing a motiou affirm,inc the general restriction of bcrrownnS powers, without .stating what ithat restriction should be. He held tiiat white the voting on a loan pfotposal was frequently very small, he had whvavs taken the apathy so displayed to mean a: general approval of (the* proposal-; Clause 8, sub-clause I of the OomBnittee's finding, that the sancticln of the liocial Board he necessa;ry 'before a, loan he,obtained, wns thrown ■ out !by ■ the Conferee ce. ■■' < - ,