Options for amalgamation
• Heathcote County ratepayers will receive a report on the options open to the county over the amalgamation issue, with the September newsletter from the county. •> A meeting of the Heathcote County Council last evening also decided to send the report to the Local Government Commission, and the Mount Herbert County Council. ; The report, prepared by.Cr R. H. T. Thompson, said that cases could be made for leaving Heathcote County as it was, amalgamating with Christchurch City, or amalgamating . to form a new Banks Peninsula, County. » In the report, Cr Thompson said that Heathcote county councillors had decided in April, 1979, to take immediate steps towards amalgamation with Mount Herbert County. This was
envisaged as a step towards a Banks Peninsula. County, and was also envisaged in the Local Government Commission scheme.
“There are advantages in legitimising a de facto relationship which has already existed for more than four years,” he said. Cr B. K. Roberts said that none of the councillors had indicated they were committed to amalgamation. A great deal more study of the issue was needed. The County Chairman (Mr J. M. McKenzie) said that councillors had had long enough to investigate what was involved in amalgamation. Small local authorities were like “carbuncles” on the necks of ratepayers, he said. Somebody should have the fortitude to make local authorities get together, and give them 12 ' months .to rationalise their work.
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