LEGALISING ILLEGALITIES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 7

LEGALISING ILLEGALITIES

■ - - -~~- —& . WARNING TO LOCAL BODIES. a violation of the statutes by lobS bodies ,s strongly criticised L the Auchtor-Generafs annual report He suggests that unquestionably . two year£ / lgld enforcement of tie law ary effects and reduce deputations^ and demands for condoning legislation to a;« To pursue tlu?pS , course multiplies the evil annually loe present practice constitutes one of the most baffling and disheartening impediments with which the Alldfc Office has to contend in its endeavour to secure an observance of statutory obligations. It is submitted that sound and, m the main, principles cf law cannot be modified or overridden year after year, to meet local demands without that respect for f«£!. 4 S essential to the maintenance of a proper standard in the conduct of local body administration o" of any type of statutory administrau <"*r . where undue hardship or unanticipated injury results from the application of the general law relief is warranted, but not for deliberately wilful .contraventions thereof, which certain astute local bodies now indulge m, relying upon.escaping from the consequence thereof by a process which apPears to,be all_the more easily operated if the matter at issue is of considerable magnitude