SINKING FUNDS BILL
POWER BOARD'S PROTEST
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
[BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] GISBORNE, Saturday At a meeting of the Poverty Bay Power Board the chairman, Mr. Ball, refe#ed to what he said were unconstitutional aspects of the Local Authorities' Sinking Funds Bill. Tlio Government had admitted that the Public Trustee, who was the defendant in an action brought by the Power Board, had been permitted to draft the bill. But for this legislation the Public Trustee would be bound to pay over moneys to the board, said Mr. Ball. He was supposedly guaranteed by the State, which was bringing forward the legislation. The Government refused to insert the usual clause protecting pending litigation and so placed the trustee in a position of resolving in his own favour the questions at issue.
Constitutionally, said Mr. Ball, if such legislation was passed, the board could petition the King and the British Government could disallow the measure.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21327, 31 October 1932, Page 10
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