AUCKLAND DISPENSARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1298, 13 January 1868, Page 1

AUCKLAND DISPENSARY.

A.NNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the tn the Auckland Dispensary I ~„, , spheres; but the physical cto.au.>.' ot tincountiy, without reference to the character of its inhabitants, would necessitate the creation of local institutions of self-government were there nothing of the kind already in existence. The county ofWestland, for example, could not be eflSciently governed from Wellington. It requires a local novernment of its own. Ihis is admitted by botli Centralists and Provmcislists. Hut it not only requires a local government oi its own, but that government itselfrcquires to be clothed with as extensive powers as those conferred by the Constitution Act on the Provincial Councils. Whatever the General Government agent may be called, he his to all intents and purposes the Superintendent of the country ; only instead of being elected by the inhabitants to preside over their , affairs, he is appointed to the office by the Ministry for the time being. If he administers the government beneficially and satisfactory, it will be seen he carries out the wishes of the County Council, and disregards the instructions of the General Government, when the wishes ot one and the instructions of the other happen to clash. If he should not do this a dead lock ensues, and anarchy is the necessary consequence. The difference between the county system of the Stafford ministry and the Provincial system established by the Constitution Act is to render sixty instead of six Provincial Governments necessary, while it would prevent the people from having that direct control which they have now over their own affairs. ff the above view of the subject be the correct one, then it follows that instead of Provincialism