CITY EMPOWERING

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 168, 17 July 1924, Page 8

CITY EMPOWERING

Sir—T- d (T ° tbG Editot -) fl agement of Secrecy of ifl the Hth. you make ££* eft above biU, and critici TZ*m it In my opinion thero ! cl 4ll the lull which are o? n *f c « serious objection than tt. ing for the arrange!!?- J? feH you direct special course of your rcmarkT t W the council and the ]£*%» their business more publU?>« tion to this would not hi Now, sir, it must k* that, however much the public bodies is worked in committee, the busine* -""B finalised at a meeting. of B Board sitting in public nigs arc open to the ■ though a public : *V the Council ( l,ambcr at Z it is very seldom that it which seems to indicate tW lie, after all, are rested in the way their ducted. But though the attend, Press representatives B ways present, presumably : v public may be advised twlrß lie Press of the business wfi- B acted, and of the attitude of ft B hers of the respective bodia fJB that business. I h aTe ever, that the amount of sptofi by the Press to reporting til. j.B »hich take place at public iod ings becomes less and less liijß amount of space given to' renorß statements from the chairmoi riß respective bodies becomes mott B more. It is not much use tontbß that the business is not coadncfißl sufficient publicity if you ctnifl space in which to record tie m B of individual members of the bodies, at any rate on importaaiß matters, when such membera ?m- : their agreement or with, and there is but little enm™" ment for the individual member press an opinion, knowing as l> B that there is very little chance otß[ he says being reported. ifr»Jj| hear the statement made that of our public business' is ddnt iifl| mittee. There may be some jJB tion for that complaint, but'tie !fc : :| of the business might as yell hJg in committee, the public. lieing only very remotely the matter. —I am, etc., . t THOMAS BLOODWOBiaB