MUNICIPAL TRAWLERS
PROPOSED LEGISLATION. It having been found that municipal bodies cannot engage in the trawling industry, Mr. R. Fletcher has given notice to move as follows at the next meeting of the Wellington City Council :—: — "That it be a remit from the Wellington City Council to the Municipal Associations' Conference to be held at Wellington in July next, that the Government be requested to amend this session tho Municipal Corporations Act, empowering city councils and boroughs to purchase fishing trawlers, and with full power to Carry on and engage in the fishing industry, with the object of supplying the community with a fresh and cheap fish food, which abounds on our coasts, thus tending to reduce the cost of living to the people."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1914, Page 6
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124MUNICIPAL TRAWLERS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1914, Page 6
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