TOWN CLERKS.
STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN METHODS. PALMERSTON N., February ,12. One of tile first matters of importance ■which the recently-constituted Town Clerks’ Association will consider is a scheme by which each member will byasked to make a payment of 5s a month into a fund which it is proposed should be used at the qpd of every 12 months for the purpose of sending six or more members of the association to Australia in order to stiffly in the various States the methods of municipal control. Mr J. R. Hardie, one of the vice-presi-dents of the association, pointed out that such a scheme if adopted would be of great value. Those who would undertake the trip, which would extend oyer a period of a month or six weeks, would be selected by ballot. The selected ones would make the journey subject to the approval of the various borough councils. The monthly payments into the fund, it is pointed out, would amotint at the end of 12 months to between £5OO and £6OO.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3805, 15 February 1927, Page 33
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