LOCAL BODY CO-OPERATION

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 10

LOCAL BODY CO-OPERATION

It was at one time hoped that the local bodies might agree to engage co-operatively in certain relief works of economic value, in preference to individual works of little or no value. No such co-operation is visible in the face of the report of Tuesday's conference, but the local bodies at any rate seem to have agreed to cooperate in the task of telling the Government what works it ought to spend money on as public works. Works "approved as of sufficient national importance to be placed before die Government with the suggestion that they be done as public i works" include die improving of the .Western Hutt Road and its continuance northward to Silverstream, with I a new bridge over the Hutt River. ( Tree-planting at Kaitoke is also on the list. Past attempts to induce die local bodies to contribute out of their own pockets to augment die Water Board's tree-planting programme at Kaitoke Were failures; but the. delegates now feel equal to die strain of asking die Government to take die matter up as a public work. Meanwhile die movement for this augiriented tree-planting scheme has missed two seasons and perhaps a third. Those who know the ways of local government may feel quite elated at die degree of success attuned, moderate though it may be.