LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.
I WAIKATO DELEGATES APPOINTED. [I'.Y TI'.LKCE.VPII. I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.] Hamilton, Thursday. A conference of representatives of various local bodies of the Waikato Hospital district was held here to-day to consider the Local Government Bill. There were about fifty delegates present. The Bill was generally condemned, and the following resolution was carried by a large majority: "That it will aggravate and intensify the evil of centralisation: that the proposals will in their operation prove cumbersome, expensive, unsatisfactory and oppressive; that, while increasing the cost of local government, they will diminish efficiency; that while diminishing the authority of the people, they will increase their financial burdens by imposing fresh unnecessary taxation; that the delegates appointed by the conference he instructed to act in accordance, with the foregoing resolution.'" .Messrs Bailey and J. Fisher were appointed Waikato representaives.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 466, 18 May 1912, Page 5
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137LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 466, 18 May 1912, Page 5
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