“No Shotgun Weddings”
Amalgamation of territorial local authorities was likened to marriage by the chairman of the Local Government Commission (Mr J. B. Yaldwyn) yesterday.
“They come together when they are ready," he said. “It is no good our coming along with a shotgun to order a wedding.*' The commission was always ready to help in any desired amalgamation—and it could help he said, but forced amalgamations had not been successful tn the past, and the commission did not want them now.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29903, 17 August 1962, Page 13
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