DISTRICT AID BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2229, 25 February 1886, Page 3

DISTRICT AID BOARD.

•' ft ——* — A moeting of the . United "District-Board.-was held yesterday, ; Mr; Bunny : uiiJ;.the,. ehair. The Chairman said; that in compliance with the wish of : the Board lie had . \ jeen Mr Travers, from whom he had obtained a written, opinion, of which the following is a precis, . Mr Travers . ex-, pressed an opinion that the District' Board and the United . District, Board IjMt subsidiso the District under its but each such subdivision fit'iisl Mike ibme area' alrea(s defined, |u|('as upunty, Borough, or a County arid one or'tnore Boroughs, etc." He was df'opinion that there was nothing in the 4fqfc to'authcfriae a portion of tho United Bin'faM separating itself of its own accord frWthe r«Bt of the United District so as to have separato control of the distribution of charitable aid within it. Tho Board itsolf in each case would sue under lection 28; but might appoint an attorney llnder tho seal of the Board. Mr Travers dbnsidercd they had, no power'to levy ratlM!, Their duty was first to declare wffli local' authorities within the district ft'rSrto contribute towards' charitable aid, aMifoulijAeedtoh'otrfyto each contriving body'the amount of' contribution w'bb made' by it, The mode in which fh'e' contributing body is 'to find the wu'bunt so fixed is prescribed by section 215." He Was of ! opinion that each contributing body could only elect one trustee.

It appeared to liim that tliere must bo tlirco Boparato funds, viz,, a hospital fund for each of three bodies, and charitable aid fund for the United District Board. Ho know of nothing to provont tho Board from rescinding or altering the former resolutions if provision for such alteration is mado in tho rules for the managetnont of its business, Ho fancied that no stops had been taken under section 22, dividing each of tho separate districts, into subdivisions and declaring what shall bo contributing local authorities 'within such subdivisions. Unless this had been dono he could not see how any election could take place so as to comply with the provisions of of sections 4G and 47 on the Act, He (the Chairman) had studied the Act and this opinion was that it would be us well if the Board endeavored to carry out the Act so far as it was possible. Ho thought it would be as well if a Committeo from'the Board should bo appointed to consider what tho fair amount of contribution of each local body should be, A motion in accordance with tho Chairman's proposition was carried and . a committee appointed to furnish, a report on all questions connected with the question of local appropriation. f : ■ ■■