ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMABU MAIL. Sie, —Would you kindly answer through your columns the following question : What'are the necessary qualifications for a township to become a Municipality under the Ordinance, 1576. Are the members required supposed to be simply ratepayers or resident householders, and if so, what number. Resident householders meaning those living within the proposed town boundary.—l am, <fec., Enquirer. [Under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1876, any district comprising a'continuous area of not more than nine square miles, but not having within it any two points more than six miles distant from each other, and containing not less than 250 resident householders, may be proclaimed a borough. To get the district so proclaimed it is necessary that a petition should be presented to the Governor, signed by not less than 100 resident householders in favor of the district being constituted a borough. If a counter petition, signed by an equal or greater number of resident householders, is presented to the Governor within two months of the presentation of tho first petition, the district cannot be proclaimed a borough.—Ed. O. M.]
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1106, 4 November 1879, Page 2
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185ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1106, 4 November 1879, Page 2
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