MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11636, 7 November 1887, Page 2

MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

{PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, November 5 • A deputation from the Municipal Conference waited on the Premier to-day to lay before him the resolutions recently passed. Major Atkinson said he would consult his colleagues on the various proposals submitted.and if they arrived at the conclusion that they were important, the Government would introduce measures durine the present session to give effeot to them. Later The Mayor of Wellington suggested to the Premier this morning that the Municipal Corporations Act should be amended, so that members of the Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, and Dunedin Councils should be styled Aldermen instead of Councillors. His Worship pointed out that the Councils mentioned were distinguished in the act from other munioipal bodies in the colony ( inasmuoh as they were designated City Councils, whereas others were known as Borough Councils. His Worship explained that the subject had been disoussed byjthe Conference, but it was the opinion of many of the delegates that the members of the Auckland, Weilington,Nelson, Christchurch, and Dunedin .Councils should be styled Alderman, rhe Premier, in reply, said that the request was not an unreasonable one, and lie would be most happy to support an intendment of the act in the direction :eferred to.