FEWER LOCAL BODIES.

Auckland Star, Issue 17, 21 January 1932, Page 11

FEWER LOCAL BODIES.

SOUTH SUBURBAN AGITATION. PROPOSED AMALGAMATION. On belialf of the Otahuhu Businessmen's Progressive League, Captain Garland and Mr. Paine waited on Mr. W. Massey, M.P. for Hauraki, to enlist his support of the movement for fewer local bodies. Mr. Paine pointed out that there are seven or more local bodies within twelvo miles southward of Auckland, each with its own building plant and office and outdoor staffs, and many inspectors. As a business people they could not see why Otahuhu, Papatoetoe, Manurewa and Mount Wellington should not combine. Each, for instance, was paying its clerk a salary from £300 to £000 per annum, when one man could supervise the whole. One staff of inspectors could control the area. No business man would think of having an office manager and staffs in every few miles of territory. Mi. Massey said ho was prepared to support anything that would better the existing conditions, and he felt that this movement would do so. He would give it his full support. He suggested that the association should put its view concisely in writing. This the delegates promised to recommend to the association.