LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.
Before the Local iGovernment Cpafe-r----e|noe met, we hazarded the opinion si.at the Bin which was hastily. att'd clumsily prepared *y the Ward Administration, aaid which was afterwards adopted iby the Mackenzie Ministry, had not a ghost-of a 'chance of being accepted Iby the local bodies of the .country, At the /same time we, yentumi the opinion that gome meja's l ure df' reform/, which' WjW lessen the -umfbor df mwikfi aiirl ;;: e . ti7e "tnomaly as to franchise,, was necessary. The Conference lias killed the Bill, ilmt has i<ecommended precisely tli'3 .reforms we had with the addition of a proposal for a better .system of subsidies. 'The Minister has promisied to frame a 'Bill in accordantfe with the 'wishes of the. Conference, hut it is exceedingly doubtful whether I this will Ibe ready in time for the coming..session of Parliament.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10643, 25 May 1912, Page 4
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142LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10643, 25 May 1912, Page 4
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