LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.
CONFERENCE TO BE PUSHED ON,
(By Tcleeraph.-Prei* Awoelatlnn.l Auckland, April 21. Referring to the Local Government Hill to a reporter to-dar, tho Hon. G. \Y. Kus sell, Minister in charge of the measure, mentioned that a conference was to bo held , in Wellington at tho end of May. Jfr. Russell said, "Some nmciulmonW may be mode in the Bill, bnl il is thr intention of tho Government to push it through- if possible, as they nvppiita that the overloading of local bodios which now exists is a mailer thai should ho remedied at as early a date n> possible. We have been approached with a view to having every local body in tin- Dominion represented at the conference, but thai would, of course, he impossible, Anything embracing more than .M\t,v or wv* only delegates would he iin\voiiiihh>. |l is the intention first In lioltl di<lriot im\\> ferences to select ilolcßiilei di lv|tl'i>M'it( them at the Wellington I'lmlVlvni'e, Th<> number of delegates hail Ihvii li\c,l mi « population basis', ami if my uliMiitWv serves me righl. Aili'lJiiml oiiv iiutt district would linvn smi'ii iMi'riiitp-' i\l (lip Wellington cimfeiviin , ,"
Mr. Ktt.s-ell Mid lie l|.>|.e,l ||~< Hill would 1)B ron-iiilorrd piilirply i\\w( (mm all party fuelinc.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1423, 25 April 1912, Page 4
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204LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1423, 25 April 1912, Page 4
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