POWER BOARDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1926, Page 5

POWER BOARDS

LEVYING OF RATES.

(Per Press Association.)

DUNEDI’N, January 28. The Conference of Power Board Secretaries of New Zealand is sitting at. Dunedin to-day. The delegates were welcomed by the Mayor, Mr. Tapley, and ■ the Chairman of the Dunedin Power Board. Mr. Nash, M.P., is President. Aitiong the remits passed was one from Hawke’s Bay, to the effect that a, Power Board may levy on the local authorities, leaving the striking of the rate to the same. This was with the view of obviating difficulties due to some of the constituent bodies rating on capital, and others on unimproved values. '

“TAGS” AND TRADING.

DANNEVIRKE, January 28.

At a special- meeting of the Dannevirke Power Board, the question of the Auditor General’s “tag” to the balance-sheet disqualifying Messrs Chadwick and Ellingham, members of the' Board, was further considered. The Chairman, Mr. E. A. -Ransome, M.l’.', reported that Mr. T. F. Martin, solicitor for the Electric Power Boards’ -Association, since the previous meeting, had advised that he is still of the same opinion as in May last, that Messrs Chadwick and Ellingham are not debarred from sitting on the Board by virtue of being trustees in air estate which possessed shares in a firm with which the Board had transactions.

The Chairman said he had interviewed the Auditor General, who said he would go fully into the matter before giving a final decision, advising that, in the meantime the members concerned had better refrain from sitting. It was decided to defer action until the Auditor General’s decision has been received.