MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3833, 16 June 1891, Page 2

MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

Firit 2*7. « -"■ t The Oonferenoe of Municipal Bodies commenced its sittings yesterday,when tnu following resolutions were passed:' -_ That the Government be asked to get the Fire Brigade Bill printed. - • .* Thatron the application of any' ' Council the Government shall have, '• power to appoint two assessors, 4fc ' expenses of such assessors to be boJK by the Council applying.' ~! j '"•;', That in the opinion of s)s Confer- - enoe the' various Provincial 'Auctioneers' Acts should be consolidated; and that Government be asked 'to introduce a Bill' to the effect ' that '' license fees should be suable "to the borough in which .jR principah"' business pxemisos of th«Ha M es are Situated.. V. t"f ; > ;>v That all accounts from the Audit Department should be sent in not ater than thirty days. be given to stop erection of buildings when same are being put up contrary to the by-law." * That power be given to recover coats oi.medical certificate arid law expenses when ruinous building* are bring pulled down by order of the CteuSoil! and also power .to atop erection of buildings when the by laws are not observed.

That extension of time for compilation of valuation and butane lists and rolls be agreed to. j That permission be given to condensrog the compilation of the burgess roll to save expense in printing. That the Corporation officials bringing oases into Court should not be mulcted in costs.

[By Telegraph]

WEtuNGxoiT, The Municipal Conference resumedat 10. It was decided that a clause . be inserted in the Act making it a finable offence for owners of houses to let or allow the same to be used for immoral purposes. Itw resolved that power ho given to municipal bodies to compel owners of ' vacant sections to fence the sane la ■ all cases, and the costs of such fencing to be a charge on the land, ■ 7 '

Lateb. The Manieipal Conference decided that power tie to corperate bodies to cancel when necessary licenses of drivers and conductors of public conveyance; that it be advisablejfeo give corperations power to erect gas-works within their boundaries without going to the legislature for special powers; that there.be a clause inserted in the Municipal Co-opera-tions Act empowering Bo roughs to abate the gorse, broom, and bramble nuisance on private lands ; that the clause of the Impounding Act be amended so as to render the working ©fitmore satisfactory.