LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 78710, 11 January 1904, Page 3

LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL.

, TIJE PREMIER'S IDEA.

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. HOKITIKA, January 11. At the opening of the Waitaha bridge. tW .Premier, ?<Serjrirtg -to ? local government matters, .^eplofed the opposition shown tD ihe amalgamated scheme con ' tamed in the lalfc* Counties Bill, and the outcry there, tiras against a proposal to absord Eoad Boards. He stated that it was intended to try the experiment with iegard to Westland., In ' reference to the matter of local government, the proposal was .to appoint one local body of 16^ members for a whole district, from the Terjniakau river to the southern extremity of Westland, to ad. minister local affairs.

The new body woali be given an assured revenue, probably in the wav -of granting royalties from timber. * " "'