LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM
Sir, —Dealing with the Waimairj County Council meeting on May 19, you say, “Members... said some rash and regrettable things.” As reported, six members spoke, but you instance only the utterance to the effect that the findings of the Local Government Commission were predetermined. Your resume of legislative history, showing what the commission should do, adds nothing to show that it did it. Irrefutably, the findings were against the weight of evidence, which had left the case for amalgamation without a leg to stand on. Your statement that members of local bodies argued high and low against the reform of local government by redressing local boundaries puts them in an untenable position. This is good generalship if it succeeds; but your guns are playing on unoccupied ground. There was no such argument; it was argument against amalgamation with the city, an entirely different thing. —Yours, etc., W. R. EARLY. Hornby, May 21, 1949.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25810, 23 May 1949, Page 2
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