LOCAL BODY REFORM
Committee To Disband
Although it was desirable that there should be some form of co-ordinating body at local authority level in Christchurch, the committee set up to onsider a two-tier system could not be asked to. continue its work, the Christchurch Regional Planning Authority agreed yesterday. It had been asked by the committee whether it should continue its work. The committee said it thought it had gone as far as it could and proposed to disband unless there was some strong reason for it to continue. There was a clear need for either a local regional authority or nationalisation of major mutual services with regional offices, the director of planning (Mr C. B. Millar) said.
By the nature of its work and constitution the Regional Planning Authority had been able to act both as a forum for mutual problems of constituent councils and other authorities and as an administrator of mutual endeavours where a new ad hoc board had not been justified, he said. Until some form of regional authority was set up it must, in the public interest, continue such functions.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31206, 2 November 1966, Page 16
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