MUNICIPAL DEPUTATION

Otago Witness, Issue 3526, 11 October 1921, Page 37

MUNICIPAL DEPUTATION

ARTERIAL ROADS PROPOSALS. | WELLING i ON, October 7 | Delegates from the conference of the New : Zealand Municipal Association waited on ! the Pi fine Minister to-day. Mr Wright, chairman, detailed the more important remits, and asked that those : which had been passed at two different : conferences siiouid 6° given preference by : Cabinet. ; Mr Massey congratulated. the conference ! upon the amount of work done, which was j of great assistance to Parliament. He ; would not go into-detail about the remils, but, speaking generally, would say that . Cabinet, v." Quid take an early opportunity of considering them. lie could not pro- i mise that they would be dealt with by Parliament during the present session; but there might be a chance of attending to the more urgent among them. He agreed with the conference that the better way of voting was by si l iking out the names of the candidates not wanted instead of putting a cross against the names of those selected. The proposal of the conference that exemption granted in the matter of rating should be confined to the general rate was one which would cause a great deal of 1 discussion in the House. Personally, he could not express an opinion until he had been into it. Ho agreed that the Government should observe the by-laws of local bodies, unless there wore some special reasons for exemption. Ihe arterial roads proposal would come before Parliament this session, and there would be an opportunity for considering the proposal of the c mfe'reuoe (lint, assistance should be given to local bodies to maintain those parts of arterial highways passing through their district.*. Personally, ho was not afraid that, arterial roads could compete with the railways. The latter could hold their own. \ love-ie Her engraved on a brick lies in liie Brit's!] Mu-emu. It a- a proposal of 3590 '."car.- old. •The population of the world is about 1,660,000.000. It bis l.eon estimated that the earth can maintain a pormlation of 6.003,000.000, a total which w 11 be reached in the vmf 2100 : t tic picscut rate oi iu-