AMALGAMATION IN PAPARUA

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28606, 7 June 1958, Page 15

AMALGAMATION IN PAPARUA

Council Resolution

Recalled

“While I join with the chairman of the Paparua County Council in urging electors to record their vote at the forthcoming poll, I wish to point out to K’r Weaver that his further statement—‘There has, at no time been any suggestion by the remainder of the Paparua County that it wishes to see these districts leave the Paparua County and join with Springs and Halswell unless the people of those districts feel that such a move is in their own interests’ does not coincide with a previous resolution which was passed by Paparua County Council and which I quote,” says a statement by Mr E. J. Stalker, chairman of the Halswell, Springs and Rural Paparua Committee.

“The resolution is: ‘That this council, realising that within reasonable time its urban districts

will wish to form or join an urban organisation, favours the suggestion made at the recent meeting of representatives of the Paparua, Springs and Halswell Counties with the Local Govern-

ment Commission that the portion of the Paparua County within the urban fence form a separate borough or county or amalgamate

with the Christchurch City or Waimairi County, and that the rural district of Paparua county join with the Springs and Halswell counties to form a rural county.’

“May I state that this resolution passed by the Paparua County Council became the basis of negotiations with the Halswell and Springs Counties and that no poll would have been held in Paparua had not a section of that county in the Templeton area asked for it by petition,” says the statement.