MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 287, 8 June 1909, Page 8

MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION.

l pp _-8B ASSOCIATION. J yesterday. A Vnofttmg of the Executive and Le «glslation. Committee of the Municipal Association was held to-day. It was resolved : — That the present method of voting by marking a cross be replaced by the. simpler method . of drawing a line through tlio name. That when a vacancy occurs in a council during the six months prior to the biennial election, the council should have power to fill the vacancy. That the present method of payment of sinking funds to commissioners for local investment yields better : results than if such funds are invested by the Public Trustee in Government securities. • That the association oppose the proposal to permit auctioneers to appoint substitute holders, of their licenses. That the question of establishing a joint superannuation fund bo deferred till the next conference. That the Government be requested to bring in legislation providing that the Grown shall pay rates on' properties taken hy the Government until a reliable occupier comes into occupation: That the attention of the Government be drawn to the fact that where educational reserves are leased "for short periods the local authority cannot levy rates, and that the Government, be requested to introduce legislation under, which it would pay rates on these reserves. That the additional charge of 10 per cent should become payable after six months from the date upon which rates first became recoverable, irrespective of whether they are sued for or not. That the. Eating Act should be also amended by providing for the amalgamation of rates levied over the-samc area on the same basis. That a returning officer should supply the Town Clerk with a marked roll after each election* to enable him to purge the roll at the dates fixed by the Municipal Corporations Act.