DIVISION OF WAITEMATA.
COMMISSION TO BE SET ~TP. ASSURANCE GIVBN" BY PREMIER. The proposed division of the Wate- :- mata County is the subject of a communication received the Prime i Minister by Mr. C. E. D.ivis, a member jof the 'Akarana League, wn'-c'.i exist* for the purpose of effecting the division. Mr. Mhkscv stated that it was certainly against the poli-.T of tlie 'Trovcrnment to allow- the division of counties, and permission had only been jrranted where very good reasons had been adduced. IHe regretted to say Unit be could not promise that the bill wonld go through this session, but he coul I an assurance that during the recess a commission would be set up to inquir. •into the whole matter. If the commission reported favourably it couM he assured i.h at the Government would stand by its decision. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister of Lands, also wrote stating that the matter would receive his sympathetic consideration wben it came before the | House. > I _
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 12
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