MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15022, 17 July 1914, Page 2

MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS

(mESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, July 16. The Municipal Conterence this morning adopted resolutions affirming the principle of taxing motor vehicles and establishing rating districts for the purpose, consisting of two or more local authorities and appointing a Commissioner to decide which local authority should collect the tax, aud how the product should be apportioned among the local bodies. Other resolutions or allied subjects are that the executives of the Municipal and Counties' Associations, jointly, draw up speed regulations i'or recommendation as inclusion in the amended Act, and fixing a uniform speed limit throughout the Dominion, breaches to be an offence under the Police Offences Act. It was decided that Government vehicles be subject to the operation of tho Motor Act. It was resolved that tho law be amended so as to throw the onns of demolishing condemned buildings on to the Health Department. It was resolved that the law relating to "unauthorised expenditure" bo amended by altering section 28 of the Public Revenues Amendment Act, 1913, to read "two per centum for ono per centum" therein. Tlie Conference also adopted a remit —"That it is of vital importance to the health of the community that the distribution of milk ehonld be under mnnicipa] control."