MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 70, 6 March 1930, Page 8

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS

ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE REMITS ADOPTED. Inveroargill, March 5. The following remits were adopted by the Municipal Conference:— Gore: That section 23 of the Electric Power Boards Act, 1925, relating to the election of power board representatives in combined districts, should be amended so as to provide for the districts concerned meeting for the purpose of electing a .epre" tative and providing for voting power of delegates at such meeting, such voting power to be proportionate to the number of electors in the respective districts. Whangarei: That the Goverimunt be requested to give facilities to municipalities to purchase electric energy direct from the Public Works Department on terms as favourable as those granted to power boards. Christchurch: That the Government be requested to amend section 139 (1) (a) of the Licensing Act, 1908, by increasing the minimum fee for a publican's license in the borough to £6O.

Mt. Albert: That the motor regulations under the Motor Vehicles Regulations Act, 1924, be amended to provide that where any road lies partly in a borough or town district and partly in a road district or county the speed limit in such cases shall be uniform.

Wellington: That the renewal of registrations of a motor lorry should be refused in all cases where the owner fails to produce a receipt showing that all heavy t •' fees payable for the previous year have been paid. Dargaville: That the Municipal Association take up the cost of a test case in the matter of the registrar of the Supreme Court refusing to proceed to sale where a judgment for rate .has been obtained against an occupier or an owner other than the registered owner.

Wellington: That power be given to the local authority to regulate fire escapes in all buildings and enforce fire prevention provisions in public buildings, acting on the advice of the inspector of fire brigades. At present the law is unsatisfactory on this point. There is a conflict between the Fire Lrigades Act and tho Municipal Corporations Act. The council should do all the administration work.

Christchurch: That all fees and fines for offences under statute law or regulation, particularly the Public Works Act, the Motor Omnibus Traffic Act, the Police Offenders Act and the Municipal Corporations Act, l>e paid to the local body which lays the information.

Nelson: That the Government be requested to make regulations for the proper control of pedestrian and equestrian traffic, which shall be applicable to the Dominion as a whole. Wellington: That provision be made for local authorities to strike off the district electors' roll the names of those persons who failed to vote at the last general election and who fail to reply to a notice sent by the clerk of the local authority to his last known address stating that they will be struck off unless they claim to possess the necessary qualifications. The conference has adjourned till to-morrow morning, when a supplementary order paper comprising 43 remits will be considered.