MUNCIPAL CONFERENCE. ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 128, 31 May 1904, Page 6

MUNCIPAL CONFERENCE. ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION.

Twenty-two additional notices of subjects for discussion at the Municipal Conference on 18th July next haute been received by the Secretary, Mr. T. F. Martin, the toosti interesting of winch ar« two from Wootston and three from Auckland. liho Woolaton suggestions are: That •übeedSoH 9 of section 405 of the Municipal Garptaniione Act, 1900, be amended with the viw ef giwng tbe worcfe "«xcepfctonal traffic" fcho same iute-rpretatign am tho words "heavy trwfiic" in section 130 of fho Public Works Act, .1894 ; and that the payments, for the maintenance of infectious diseases }»ospituls be charged against tho T%te levied for hospital aud charitable aid punppscs, instead of as at present against tiie general account. The Ancklasxl notkses are : Thafc«ection 25 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900, be amended by the addition of the contained in clnnso 34 of Ao Municipal Corporations Aot, 1900, if a vacancy occurs within two months of tho next annual election of Mayor, Councillor elected to tfce position of Mayor shall be entitled to retain his seat as Councillor." That clause 40 of Uho Municipal Corporations Act, 190Q, bo repealed and the following substituted : — "The Council at its first ordinary meeting after the election of Mayor shall appoint one of its own members to the position of Depaty-Mayor, who in caso of illness or absence of the Mayor shall have full power to perform any act which the j Mayor, as such, might do, except aot as Justice of the Peace unless suoh deputy in himself a Justice." That tbo Tramways Aot, 1894, second schedule, clause 13, and third acbednlo, be amended so as to assimilate the procedure for taking tho opinion of the electors on any question Hnder tVe Act with the provisions of, th* Municipal Corporations Act, 1900, rotating to polls. The notices from Wellington have already been published.

Tho London authorities of tho Navy League apparently did not anticipate co rapid an increase na there has been in tho membership of the Wellington branch. The copies of tho April number of the Navy League Journal recently received havo proved insufficient for local requiremente, and only membera can be supplied at the present. A further supply j« expected shortly, and' on arrival of the additional copies the associates of the League will be supplied fl* well a* the oemboM. The headquarters of tho American Tobncco Company ha-ro been ehifted from Auckland to Wellington. Mr. C. 11. B. Rumell, managing director of the company, was entertained at diwer in Auckland before Jbo left lor vfais citr