NO BINDING PACT

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 226, 21 June 1934, Page 4

NO BINDING PACT

Education Board and

City Council

Ou page 7 appears a report of a Wellington Education Board discussion leading to a decision to call ou the City Council-to complete the agreement for the purchase of the board’s property in Mercer Street;

When invited to comment upon the attitude of the Education Board, the Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, was emphatic that no binding agreement, had been entered into in respect of the purchase of the site. "It simply shows that the members of. the Education Board were speaking without proper knowledge of the position,” the Mayor said. “Of course there is no binding agreement. They don’t understand the Act.” The Local Legislation Act, 1930 (section 32), empowering the purchase of the site of the offices of the Wellington Education Board and-Technical School by the Wellington City Council is. as follows:— ' '• ■ “Whereas by .section sixty-seven -of the Local Legislation Act, 1928, the Education Board of the district of Wellington (hereinafter referred to as the board) was authorised to sell the land described m sub-section six of that section; and whereas the Wellington City Council ..(hereinafter referred to as the council) has agreed to purchase from the board and the board has agreed to sell to the .council the said land for the sum of £5.1,000. payable by instalments: Be it therefore enacted, as follows': —- . “The Wellington City Council is hereby authorised to purchase the said land ,by instalments, and may from time to time raise a special loan or special loans, by way of special order, and without, taking the steps described in section nine to thirteen of the Local Bodies Loans Act, 1926 (such special loans not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of tol.000) to met the instalments of purchase money (including the first instalment) payable in respect of such purchase as such instalments respectively fall dpe.”