BOROUGH REQUIREMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 168, 19 June 1925, Page 5

BOROUGH REQUIREMENTS.

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER. Per Pre» Association. WELLINGTON, June 18. The principal remits passed by the recent Municipal Association’s Conference wero laid before the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. R. F. Bollard, by a deputation consisting of the Mayors of Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Masterton, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Nelson and Invercargill. The deputation laid stress on the remits asking the Government to (a) increase its contributions to fire boards; (b) allow the expenses of local body loans to be paid out of the loan; (c) to enuble übsent voters to vote at local elections as they do at Parliamentary elections; (d) to empower the Main Highways Board to subsidise large boroughs and cities; (o) allow boroughs representation on the Main Highways Board; (f) increase to £3O the amount of goods which a local hotly member may set! to that local body; and (g) legislate to provide that all bodies’ departments’ banking accounts be treated as one account. It was also urged that soldier settlers’ land which had revetted to the Crown ought not to bo exempt from rates. The Minister: “Do you expect the Government to pass that?” (Laughter). The Minister promised careful consideration of all the remits.