LOCAL BODIES
REDUCTION IN NUMBER URGED
OPINION OF FARMERS* UNION The opinion that the system of local government should be continued, but that it must be radically altered was expressed by the New Zealand termers’* Union in evidence submitted yesterday to the Parliamentary Committee on Local Government by a member of the Union's executive. Mr B. V. Cooksley. He said that there was Undoubtedly a very strong case for decreasing the number of local bodies by the process ol amalgamation. This was a matter which would require to be brought about by education and negotiation.
The union submitted, said Mr Cooksley, that there wore directions in which the system of local government could be improved, perhaps in the direction of lessening the number of local bodies at present in existence, in some cases, and expanding the powers of the remaining ones. In many cases local bodies were existing side by side and doing work which could be carried out much more satisfactorily and more efficiently by one which would combine the several functions in the district.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 14 April 1945, Page 4
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176LOCAL BODIES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 14 April 1945, Page 4
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