MUNICIPAL REFORM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 842, 14 June 1910, Page 4

MUNICIPAL REFORM.

ALDERMEN FOB NEW ZEALAND. ' The desirability of conserving by some means the experience of ex-mayors for the city has been often urged both, in and beyond New , Zealand. A proposal which is intended to effect this end, and' , also to 6ecure a measure of continuity in the constitution and policy of municipal councils, is contained in a motion which Councillor Devine has given notice to move at the meeting of the City Council' on Thursday night. The moV tion proposes that it be a remit from the council to the forthcoming Municipal Conference that the Municipal Con porations Act be amended in the follow* ing directions. In the boroughs with a population of not less than 60,000, the Mayor shall be elected from among the members of the council, and the councils of such boroughs shall be entitled to designate six of their number aldermen. The six councillors who receive most votes at the next elections shall be the first aldermen in each case. At each subsequent election three out of the six aldermen shall retire, and the other three continue in office till the following election, the result being that no council will be able, to consist entirely of new blood. If the Mayor is not elected from the council the retiring Mayor shall be entitled to sit at council meetings, and shall rank as an alderman until the next Mayor retires.