MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 110, 3 February 1931, Page 13

MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE

Upper Hutt Not Represented

By a unanimous vote the Upper Hutt Borough Council decided last night not to send its town clerk or the Mayor to the conferences to be held at Rotorua in March, but to allocate £3O (the cost of sending these representatives) for unemployed relief in the borough. When the town clerk brought forward letters from the secretary of the New Zealand Institute of Town Clerks and the Municipal Association requesting that representatives be sent to the respective conferences, a councillor said: “I notice that one or two local bodies are not sending representatives this year on account of distress in the districts.” “I am of opinion from au education point of view,” said Councillor W. Greig, “that the town clerk should attend the conference, but owing to the number of men out of, work, this time, I think he should not go.”

“I am quite agreeable,” said the Mayor, Mr. P. Robertson, “if it includes myself. But I think we should have a resolution to have the money it would cost to send the representatives set aside for unemployment. Don’t let us just hide behind the resolution not to send anybody.”