Akaroa and Catchment Board
Sir,—l have followed with interest reports of the Akaroa County Council in both "The Press” and the “Akaroa Mail” of the endeavours of some councillors to withdraw the council from the Catchment Board. The smokescreen of the legal opinion and the chairman’s statement of the dire perils of such a move must be seen as nothing more than bureaucratic nonsense. Councillors De Latour, Harris, and Craw must have the support of their ratepayers to have asked for this withdrawal, and the democratic way would seem to be to have a simple referendum of the county ratepayers on this matter, and give the people back their “just and democratic right.” — Yours, etc..
A. J. BOLEYN. February 10, • 1982.
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