CORRESPONDENCE.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN
WAIMATE.
(to the editor.) Sib. — At the meeting held at Manaia for the express purpose of defining the boundaries of Mr Blennerhassett's proposed seven wards, no doubt a lot of valuable time would have been saved had the meeting been aware of the fact that on the 12th inst. Parliament passed an amending Act to the Government Loans to . Local Bodies Act, 1886, granting districts which are divided into ridings, or sub-divisions, the right to use ordinary revenue for the purpose of paying interest on loans (vide section 12). This was the one essential requisite,* and now there should be no argument against wards or sub-divisions. Mr Blennerhassett proposes seven wards. Why not three, having for their boundaries the Mountain and Railway Reserve ; Railway Reserve to the block line between Kaupokonui and Waimate ; and from the said block line so the aea ? This should answer the purpose better than seven wards. The revenue from each ward would have to be expended within the ward in which it accrued, and * then there would be no fear of the open robbing the bush, sis the bush people claim to have been done in the past. — I am, etc., Satis Verborum. Manaia, October 30.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3387, 31 October 1896, Page 2
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