"STOOD THE RACKET."
LOCAL BODIES' TROUBLES. GOVERNMENT CHARGED. (By Telegraph.—Pi-ess Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, tliis day. "No group of 111011 in New Zealand has had a worse time than have the Mayors of cities and boroughs in this country, as during the depression they have probably had to stand up to more racket than any other group of public men," said the Mayor of G'liristchurch, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., in welcoming delegates to the Municipal Association's conference to-day.
"There is probably 110 country in the world where, to the same extent, the burden has been placed upon local bodies, as has been the ease in New Zealand," he added. "Both the Government and the Unemployment Board, to a very large extent, have sheltered behind local bodies, and a very heavy financial burden lias been placed upon local bodies within my experience. Both the Government and the Unemployment Board get almost panic stivken at any suggestion of local bodies showing a rebellions* attitude or failing to bear the burden as they have carried it in the past."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 68, 21 March 1935, Page 8
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