THE WAIROA COUNTY COUNCIL.
LTo the Editor of the Daily Tblbouaph.] Sir,—Our County Council, ever since it came into existence, has had a mania for law. Almost one of its first proceedings was to present to each Councillor, a volume, bound in half-calf, containing the Regulation of Local Elections Act, the Counties Act, the Financial Arrangements Act, the Rating Act, the Public Works Act, the Municipal Corporations Act, the Licensing Act of 1873,1874, and 1875, the Abolition of Provinces Act, and the Registration of Electors Act. These valuable volumes (I think there are nine of them) are labelled in gilt letters " Th»* Council Acts," and might naturally have been considered sufficient—and more than sufficient—for the most legally gluttonous Council; but it seems not, as at the meeting held on the 11th January, it was cooly proposed to spend £20 in purchasing the whole of the New Zealand Statutes. As the modest wish was not carried on that occasion, the topic was brought up again last Saturday, and it was decided that, as the Council had already bound volumes of Statutes for 1876 and 1878 (in addition to the half-
calf Volumes above mentioned), they should only purchase the Statutes tf>r 1877 and 1879. Judging from the Wairoa Council's recent action in sending round circulars to most of the other Counties in the colony to join them iv upsetting Waste Land Boards as at present constituted, they have probably their "H'eagle High" on other component parts of the Government, with a view of having them either remodled or abolished altogether the Wairoa County Council to rise triumphant from the ruins. With a complete set of the New Zealand Statutes, and a most efficient staff of officials, what could not this gifted Council undertake ? Come on gentlemen, there's just nine of you, and the clerk makes ten: What's £2 a piece? The paper alone is worth the money, and the opportunity may never occur again.—l am, &c, Economy. Wairoa, Ist March. 1881.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3026, 8 March 1881, Page 2
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