COUNTY COUNCILS OR ROAD BOARDS.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sib, —The country is suffering from over government and over taxation. "Let us either have a Road Board or a County Council." Such is the cry every day one hears amongst country settlers. The road boards put one in miod of the old-fashioned parish vestries of old England. The county councils seem to have come into existence after the fashion thirty years ago of local boards—swallowing up some half-dozen old vestries into country districts and central boards, doing the same work. In London all the old city parishes were amalgamated, and a powerful central board—the Metropolitan Board of Works — governed the whole. Now sir, if we accept the county councils in preference to the road boards, let us by ail means make the system effective. I suggest that the present road boards should be formed into local oounoil/i, en< trusted with the expenditure of the funds of their respective districts, under the manage meat of tho County Council —a well organised council. By all means let us have one taxation.—l am, eto., W. F. Hammond.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8066, 6 October 1887, Page 3
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