LOCAL BODIES.
THAMES COUNTY COUNCIL. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) THAMES, this day. It was proposed at the Thames Count; Council meeting yesterday that applicatioi be made to the Prime Minister for settini up a Royal Commission of successful prat tical men to report on the advisability o otherwise of opening up fresh land fo settlement in the county. At the July meeting the chairman an clerk were deputed to take up the matte of State forest encroachment in the count with the Prime Minister, but owing t Mr. Savage's illness this was impossibh and instead they . waited on the acting Minister of Lands, who gave them sympathetic healing. The county coi tends that some lands taken for forest are suitable for settlement. The council agreed to donate £5 towards the Thames Centennial restroon A request from the Auckland Provincif Centennial Committee for the council t meet its full quota in respect to the centr; fund was declined. It was stated tha the council decided previously to give total of £20 to the central fund, but coul not make a further contribution.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 194, 18 August 1939, Page 3
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