LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 177, 26 July 1913, Page 9

LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

A"ffC__AK_'S SUBURBAN PSOBLEMS. TKAiha ANU TOWN PLANNING. '!".: .ir.am] meeting of tho Auckland 5.,,•,i;.--'iu LvhmJ K d:-B, adjourned from : ._-.. k _4 I-':..i5... ..an CL'nclu.i.-J iaot j, e /, Air _. J. t .'.>ie (Jtii-.i'iitig. ; ... ;,!u*i. A a*- received irum the City ( ,j: ;'.i -.i.ii tti- suburban At^ocistiuil u.J it-ad itfc c'.-op.ration and as_stj-., , -.11 i-II •r'. io ..a-e :.*,o Tramways Vpa-tiJinent .V,'.. P.'Hi. am-ndi.' by the *. ■ c' the s-. ■-....,.-- Ah.i took from ,;,!. ..; bo.-' • the r.:"v. :•) control the t Mir..-a;.6 i.i . eir _ lU-.rn 1 . . i ':.< " • ■ ■ I i '■: ( m.--: r, i.v r.-'i i l"i ""i the A!»-.-)c:aii a. bin b- :h lit '" rn--.- ind Mr ~'. i._ da urged that •• ■• A_ oc nt ion fhi'uli! see that the Cout:v■■, s n tbe r.i"» of anv amendmrnt ir, .I,'i: Aft. i' was fir.ally' decided io sttpp', r; ihe i ity t',v.in< '!. providing the 1-en! _, ~i ns irere allowed control in their rep.i:_d t"> tiie effect lhat the .-_ eici.v.ion fa.-ctirrd the srrting up of a Committee or Bea-.l fvr Cie local control of the tramways.. 6IU _ body tr. consist of re-prfsr-ntiuvs from the districts through vr'rich '.he t.are.s ran. I! was also d - riled, on the motion of Mr Bloomfield. that ; v e executive shou'd sc rutin's!.' the coca of dclesation. with the object of friTTiire' rt-soecting the timetsbics. c!n-!i'?- of cars, r'.c T'i HELP TOWN PLANNINC. Mr F. M. King (Birkenhead) moved a remit I a the effect that an eiTnrt should br uucte to have inserted in the Municipal t vrpnrations Act. requiring persons vr'.<- pr 'pes, - in suhdtrid? estates to de- ,. ,_'a plan with the lev,] !►.-.,!.-.- iff"r:M with the eubdivis: c could he obtained. '":;• jtilVi.itv -i =ti'.-.,!:-id" n. c-ranlcl by :>- i-i-i T..ar..-fc Der-irtmen: -i-d the en'-'.l'V's of cutting un were often shf.uhf havp s-oync voice in the matter, the T.ectir.g i, pr "' d the rrnit. as being ' (in •' ■-• :::■-■•' - ""' Mr E. \. i 'raig lOne to '•'■■? •"".-•; '■'■ '■ '-"■ C.-ivrmmrii! lie ir the p".vf-' ef *•--■ -.- np; nr- on edueatcros. Mr '■ 'raig prcnted out that in ids district nn» r.H.v.in.i] rmrly held 2.1 aero?, .iri another one six acres, from R-hich the Road Board could collect no rates, i 4 w?,-i mci-. ; n«d that the same pssiticr ohtaine,! in Pemnern. I'THFR MATTERS. Tic rpi--st.if.;: of requesting that Tie Rating Art he amended io provide that a loci! body couid levy rate.- on the interest of private gas companies in mains throng*! municipal t'-i-.r •■■usrhfarp*. raise! by Mr P. Spencer i Remuera). was forwarded, without specific expression of opinion, for discussion at the municipal conferrner. It wr-.s also decided thai a request be forwßrdci to Covernment ; ri.it copies of al! proposed bills laving a bearino; on matters' affecting local binirs he' forTr.irde" ;-, the A.-.-oc.at'. in A rcrr.i: nt-eing that a clause be inserted "I '.■■■> "'' in. i 'i! 0" -,i ■ i '-is •'• enibiinr !---al bodies to mo-tor. "btis, trsin, or ferry serviccp. was also erat on --, the Conferp-ioe, with the approval of the Ae.«"ri.ltior,.