WARDS AND LICENSING DISTRICTS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1888, Page 2

WARDS AND LICENSING DISTRICTS.

«-7 It is satisfactory to notice that the City Council has at last awakened to the necessity for revising the boundaries of the wards, and that a committee is to be appointed to report upon tho question. It appears that although tho reolaimed land could be dealt with on a petition from the City Counoil to the Governor, it will be necessary, in order to bring abont a thorough revision of the boundaries of all the wards, that a petition to the Governor should be signed by not less than one-fourth the bnrgesses of each ward. It will probably cost something to obtain this number of signatures, but the alteration is bo necessary and desirable that the Council will be quite justified in incurring the expense. Probably if the petition could be ready in time, nearly the whole of the required signatures could be obtained in connection with the forthcoming licensing elections. Copies of the petition might be placed for signature outside the doors of each polling place. In connection with the re-division of the city into wards, the Committee might also, we think, consider the desirability of doing away with the ward licensing districts, and uniting the whole city as one district nnder the Licensing Alt. ikich an alteration would, we believe, be very desirable, and the Aot

would probably be better administered by one committee than it now iB by four. In Dunedin and other towns the substitution of one General Committee for mere Ward Committees has been found a decided improvement, and has worked most satisfactorily.