MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 February 1926, Page 8

MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION.

❖ CONFERENCE AT DUNEDIN OPENED. (BY TELr.GKAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Feh: 4. The annual conference of the New Zealand Municipal . Association commenced this morning, the president, Mr Tanley, M.P.. Mayor of Dunedin, presiding ‘over a record attendance of delegates. The president, m submitting his annual report, expressed the hope that the Government would show more consideration for the conference decisions than, it had done in the past, otherwise the delegates were wasting their time. He extended a warm welcome to the delegates. Replies to the welcome were made bv Mr Baildon (Mayor of Auckland), Mr Norwood (Mayor of Wellington), and others. A remit from Newmarket that municipal rolls he compiled from Parliamentary rolls was lost. Remits were carried that clause six of the regulations directing the town clerk to omit persons who had not voted at last general elections of mayor and councillors he restored or reenacted; that section 16 of the Municipal Cornoratons Act he extended to provide that where a borough council conducts an election for members of a harbour hoard or other local body such body shall pay a proportionate part of the cost of preparing the electors’ list: that to assist in the continuity of policy the present Act he amended, making provision for a general election of mayor and councillors every three years. A remit was carried that the executive of the Municinal Association go into the question of a national superannuation scheme and bring the matter before the Government, with a view to having the necessary legislaton passed.