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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AKD GENERAL ¦ *m» I¦¦ ¦ A copy of tho letter" which Mr. Wilford ; M.P., has forwarded to the lMme "Minister protesting agninet the Huttroad being vested in the City Council was hud before the Johnsonville Town Boaul lust night. The board approved of Mr Wilford's- action, it& opinion being that the control should be in the hands of a board set up lor that purpcte. A total of 346 immigrants is being brought fiom London to New Zealand by the steamer Athenic. dun at Wellington to-night. Of the number ' mentioned 204 have been assisted by the Government, and they include 60 men, 92 womeir, And 52 children. The • vessel will berth at the Queen's Wharf probably between 9 and 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. "I had _a say in tho passing of tho Municipal Corporations Amendment Act last year." said Dr. Newman at Hataitai last evening, "when a clause was inserted giving local bodies power to compel the removal of unsightly hoardings, scrap heaps, etc., on vacant sections held by mercenary owners awaiting the unearned "increment, to the detriment of well-cared-for adjoining properties. This clause, unfoitunately,is not well known, but its usefulness might be applied as au experiment to Weljhigton .City.."-