MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 143, 18 June 1891, Page 6

MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

The Auckland Electric Lighting Bill, which is to be introduced during the next session of Parliament by the New Zealand Electric Syndicate, has been printed and circulated. The Bill will authorise the Syndicate to do necessary work for supplying the city of Auckland and suburbs with electric energy, for lighting purposes and for motive power. Provision is made for the contitution of a board of control to consist of not le3s than three persons, who shall be appointed for that purpose by the Governor-in-Council, with power to make rules and regulations for control of the company in the interests of public safety. The City Council is now considering the proposals of the syndicate.

The Municipal Conference opened at Wellington on June 15th. There were over forty delegates present. Mr A. W. Brown, Mayor of Wellington, was unanimously elected chairman, and Ml' Page, Town Clerk, secretary. In his opening address Mr Brown expressed the opinion that more power ought to be accorded to municipal institutions, and if tbie was dono,

they would not find, as was very often the case, Parliament undertaking duties which really belonged to the Public Works Committee. There should, he thought, be differential legislation as between the four large cities and other boroughs. Especially was this desirable inTregard to sanitation. Kg hoped to sec the Municipal Association on a substantial basis formed at this Conference.