MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2761, 2 July 1894, Page 3

MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

(PBESEESB ASSOCIATION.) ;,; WELLINGTON, July 2. _ 1 The Ntutiioipal Conference bpenea this morning Aboob 25 delegates were preS3? Mr Branaon, Mayor of Welhngtoni Xpreeidear welcomed the to WelUnßton, and congratulated the conforenoe on meeting for its second session. The retiring President's report, wbioh gave a review of the work last oonferentJe, •as rea* and adopted. The balance.beet, wbioh ehowed a credit balance, was Sbo re»a, bnt not adopted pending auait. M^T«Bk; Mayorof Nelson, askea leave to move .the following resolution :-" That th»aelwat9Bto this conference ontahaU^of their corißtitaenoiesao sympatbise SfbTpremierana Colonial Treasurer foi'lieVaranoos ana trying auties they hitS perform auring the past week.ana 3oh«Mtily congratulate the Government tohteii boia stroke of policy in reforenoe S We Bank of New Zealand by *hioh " Jfaey hay« averted one of the patM Slamltiea that might have befallen, thia • S« aaopted coantty, and to assore the vZvetoment that the people of the colony £ii.-tboße ioteieeted ehouia feel ever " **W> 1 iot lbe bwio6Bß taofe ftna foteßlghl ' <dl 3SSwb. Mayor of Daneain, verj J&Sfir opposed Mr Trask, beins iuoSS' to iitroaobe such a motion. I -.1/ wftßobiionßtbftttha resolotion partoo v A rif a VoMiied character, and he owrtemUw i ,iM:se^&illeveDM bad not m* to Jhgw •^•'JolitWl probjems or the , politid. Sie^s of ttie delegates, buthadmetii ih^interest. of the local boaies. , M SjugS: it, would be an evil ad %?■ S-Uooiation ['when it allowe . :,^>^ B *f^S V ery careful coneiaen a.*Se i a?sa ?y way wish in a ? S^na oiform to criticise the action of tt Govewment over thiß matter. The , rig , Sevbad taken mißbt be wieeVbut Btillt SSoßition was one that wouW *jg vStvea that perhaps the delegates won Vf/^V f/^ UsEi'be'iii a b ett " P oflition t0 i }^ n6a * «Sr ana y tbe wflolution wouia reoei potftiSrwawitbaiew the motion fo B t