MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE
SOME OF THE REMITS The annual conference of the Municipal Association will be held at Palmerston North on February 9th. No fewer than 88 remits have been set down for consideration. Included in the recommendations of the executive committee is one suggesting that section 121 of the Municipal Corporations Act ba amended with a view of increasing the amount of “authorised expenditure” to £IOO. The committee refers to the conference a proposal that the Government be asked to pass a regulation specifying the right-of-way as between vehicles at street intersections. A remit from Auckland has been endorsed by the executive, providing that the council may refuse a license of a building for a public meeting unless the applicant is a person of good character, and may suspend or cancel a license for a building where it is proved to its satisfaction that the licensee has subseauent to the granting of the license, become of bad character. Another remit from Auckland, endorsed by the executive, is that the Government be approached with a request to instruct the Commissioner of Police to supply local authorities, on request, with particulars of the police reoord of applicants for the various classes of licenses dealt with hr local authorities.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12660, 21 January 1927, Page 7
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