URBAN AFFAIRS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1939, Page 6

URBAN AFFAIRS

MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE MAYOR OF MASTERTON PRESIDING. SUGGESTIONS BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The 29th conference of the New Zealand Municipal Association opened this morning under the presidency of Mr T. Jordan, Mayor of Masterton. The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon W. E. Parry) was -present and dele.gates were welcomed by the Mayor. Mr Parry, citing the Municipal Corporations Act of last -year as evidence of the desire of the Government to implement the association’s remits, stated that other remits -were dealt with in other Acts last session. He thought he had ground for complaint, however, in the ac-tipn of some borough councils. The Government must assume that -the conference had given final consideration and that the remits forwarded represented the considered judgment of the Municipal Association, in other •words, finality. But in the present order paper he noticed remits aiming to secure amendments to provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act of last session. He did not -wish to block the legitimate desires of the conference, but thought that unless they were urgent matters which the conference had not thought of before the Act was passr ed they should be left for a while 4;o give time for the legislation to work itself out. ■Mr Jordan, -replying, complimented the Minister on the town planning start he had made. The hope of the conference was to be regarded as the Government’s junior partner. Later Mr Jordan delivered his an.nual report.