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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3085, 23 April 1892, Page 2

At the meeting of members of County Councils proceeding in Auckland are being discussed matters of the most vital importance, which are naturally of more immediate interest to country settlers than nine-tenths of the questions which come under consideration of Parliament. The Conference is a happy conception as it has brought together the men best able from practical experience to arrive at sound conclusions on the matters with which they will deal. So important are many of these that we shall refrain from commenting upon the proceedings of the Conference till we have had time to give them our most earnest consideration. We shall theu consider each of the questions brought under discussion in a series of articles, in which it will be our endeavour to sift tho wheat from the chaff. There is always a tendency in bodies of the description of the Conference to take rather extreme views. In the case in point, the Councils have lived in such a glorious uncertainty us to what the next turn of the politieal wheel was likely to bring or take away from them, that they have been prevented from initiating a policy, or if they have done so, seldom indeed have tlmy boen. able to continue in the course decided upon. The vital question with them —the funds at their disposal— has been too much subject to the caprice or necessities of Ministers. The various questions discussed will have to be considered iu the first place singly, subsequently, the-.bear-ing of eaeh upon the whole. _ There is little difficulty in pointing out defects, they are self apparent, it is a practicable remedy for those which has to be found.