PROPOSED BOARD OF WORKS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20472, 16 February 1932, Page 8

PROPOSED BOARD OF WORKS.

t SUGGESTION TO QTf i COUNCIL. 1 I CONFERENCE TO BE rn^n : Following a letter received ftg* u, Council of the United ciation, the City Coameil ' night to call a eoisfereeee «f bodies to diseais tho «j«eatisa t ting up a MetropoHtas BeitM Works. * The Burgesses' Assaeiatia* stating that at a recent J following motion had I unanimously:— , | i That the lime has aow j when it is desirable to fora ib. | politan Board of Works oi I in the City, for tie reasons: That a greater aud co-ordination of tie wk i ried out by the varices i in Greater Christcicrti is isKaJij, j in the interests of mer* eeassaattt ' local government adrainiatTSiiss. J Mayor's Vievs. j The .Mayor (Mr IX G. SsiHiTia, 3LJU j asked the Council to state j favoured a conference of Isal j to discuss the quentioa. or at ! | of ratepayers. He reminded j that the Governneat was ! Royal Commission to coaaisSey body administration. ir:si would be a good plan, to miit . report was made known I cring the matter. He Moved th» « ■ ference of local bodies discuss the problem. ■■■' In seeou'lin.,- the motion., Cr. MM: Andrews saiu .hat m Ms epiaosa.» good many people did sot what a Metropolitan Board of Vtik : meant. They were coafsstiaj it the Melbourne Metropolitan JBeaal £ Works, which dealt only iri£k lMj| supply and drainage. Witt 'egad. & the views stated by candidates City Council at the last & considered that many of Cant ihm mostly in favour of bringing' it Hilflti districts into the City raties tfeat Siting up a Board of Woris. I Public Utilities CcsmxStet Cr. J. McCombs said that 1m ttaofet that many people did not that there was at tha prejeat good deal of co-ordination aiaeag laat bodies. There was for instaanifhklW> lie Utilities Committee wfejei «MiSm a good deal of overlapplsg. fidtot ps matter was taken much fsaSisß- ; j| should be decided whether *3fittar politan Board of Works or aa«»sJWßa~ tion of local bodies was matter Of fact there tras wt gamation and co-ordinatioa is c-hureh than in any ether cfiy Zealand. JJWj It was decided to call a no date being fixed in tk« ißWiflHlrtfc: , g 1 m