MUNICIPAL POWERS.
EXTENSION IN SYDNEY. [rnoM ovn own correspondent.] SYDNEY, July 17. With one or 'two exceptions the Government has provided the City Council with everything it has asked for, in the Sydney Corporation Amending Bill, which is to come boforo Parliament. The wider powers granted to the council, if assented to by the Legislature, will include the registration of undertakers and : their vehicles, the control and management of mortuaries, the control of stables, the control and inspection of lavatories in hotels and stops, the regulation and control of boarding houses, the inspection and regulation of barbers' shops, and provisions empowering the council to license, control, and regulate restaurants, cafes, tea rooms and eating houses. A far-reaching provision is that empowering the council to compel persons suffering from a notifiable .disease and employed in food shops or in the delivery of'articles of food, to submit to an examination by medical practitioners. Other., powers deal, with the control of smoke nuisances, noi&ps., poultry, washhouses, etc. Many of the powers now cxercisecj by the council are obsolete.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18772, 28 July 1924, Page 4
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