LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12752, 2 May 1912, Page 2

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.

;'...-, V* .".>: ..., ... ■"■■ . Y.r (.Per. Press Association.) ' -- .* Y •■'•■ "r. 'OAMARU," this day. ' At a meeting' of all local bodies the following resolution m reference to the Local 'Government Bill . was ' unanimously [carried: "That this meeting of members [of all; local gaverning bodies m the county of Waitaki and boroughs strongly protests against the passing of the Local Government >Bill, ' for the follow-, ing reasons— (l) That, it will aggravate and intensify evil of centralisation ; (2). that it will curtail the right of people to administer their own. local affairs ; (3) that its proposals will m operation prove cumbersome, .: expensive, unsatis-^ factory, and oppressive; (4) ;that -while increasing the cost of local government, it will' Hot add to its- efficiency; (s)'tha(t while diminishing the authority of.peoples it will • increase- theii-'-firmncial burdens/.by imposing fresh ai^d umiecessary taxation ;. (6):' that '^no-nieasviiie embodying so 1 vidleni-an alteration m the administration of local '--affivrra should be pasSed into law- untiV.'fclie people have been .. afforded \ an opDortiuiity,..bf ...pro- ;- nouncing i upon/ it mt the> .-.•.ba?Jot-box. , ' ; A ,-