POWER BOARD ELECTIONS.
WIDER FRANCHISE SOUGHT.;
A movement to'" restrict the franchise for power board elections was not favourably received by delegates to the first conference of chambers of commerce in the Auckland Province, which opened in Auckland yesterday. . A remit from tho Te Awamutu Chamber, brought forward by Mr. C. G. Downes, suggested that as power boards were commercial concerns the franchise should be restricted to ratepayers, who were really in tho position of shareholders, thus bringing tho voting powers of residents in boroughs into lino with those of country residents. "It is not -fair that people who have not a direct interest in tho working of power boards should have the right to elect members, Mr. Downes said. l\lr. A. G. Lunn (Auckland) said the spirit of tho age was to extend the franchise. Ratepayers were not the on , consumers of power and all residen s w v> wore consumers had a direct interest xn tho.affairs of power boards. A motion was passed stating that t conference favoured an Uc . franchise for power board elu^ 10n "' J p ing it on the same footing as the I liamcntary franchise.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20304, 11 July 1929, Page 9
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