PARLIAMENTARY NOTES
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fFROM OUR SPECIAL OORR—SPOXD-KT.I WELLINGTON, July 7. A movement originated by Dr. Hodgkinson in favor of appointing a Select Committee to report on the present system of local government, and to recommend some improved method, is receiving a good deal of countenance, about thirty members already having enrolled themselves among its supporters. It is said that when the Premier moves his motion for appointment of a Harbors Committee, Mr Scobie Mackenzie will move an amendment traversiny the proposal on the basis that the credit of the colony is not bound up with the credit of these Harbor Boards, and that the Premier's proposal is an effort to make the colony take the New Plymouth harbor over. The amendment will probably affirm that the Boards should be allowed to work out their own destiny, always provided that no obstacle is placed in their way by Parliament.
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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7356, 8 July 1889, Page 5
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