Heathcote will negotiate
The chairman of the Heathcote County Council, Mr Oscar Alpers, said Heathcote would have to negotiate with other councils with a view to making the best of a bad job of the amalgamation proposals. "We have to recognise the enormous dictatorial powers of the Local Com-
mission and the virtual inevitability that what its chairman says will happen,” he said in a report presented at last evening’s County Council meeting. Mr Alpers also said the wishes of Heathcote residents had to be recognised and the council had to do whatever it could to achieve a Port Hills Dis-
trict Council, but it also had a responsibility to address the commission’s proposal. “There are probably some ways in which the adverse effects on Heathcote residents of a wholesale metropolitan amalgamation can be softened,” he said.
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