TINY COUNTIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16942, 26 January 1926, Page 11

TINY COUNTIES.

SHOULD GET TOGETHER. MR. JELL'S ADVICE. Poking fun'll I Oanloi'btiry’s many microscopical counties, M. A. E. .lull, of Die Main Highways Board, at a eon IVveue; with representatives of county councils at, Christchurch, stressed Die necessity for amalgamation. “Oil, you have got a, lot of tiny wee enmities,” said Mr. .Tull—-very liiile things they are. ‘‘Let me see now,” hi> said, as he consulted a voluminous bundle of papers. ‘•'Some of them of {■'ft by Sit, others are 4ft by (iff. Anyone who conics from outside vour little lots you call foreign. Now, gentlemen, for Heinen’s sake get together. Broaden your vision. Then you won’t, lie coming along asking us to buy you wheelbarrows. Yon must join up. i say, get together. Am la gam ate. Unite. ‘•"Then,” went on Mr. .lull, amidst laughter, “your mole hills won’t; appear like mountains. You'll have a real county.” (“I am calking to you straight,” he said, ‘‘because I am a counties'' representative. I know Die difficulties that burden large and unwieldy counties, and 1 know. too. the difficulties of the microscopical county.’' He went on to say that the question of foreign traffic was one which had been brought before the board’ in the North Island as well as in the South. As a matter of fact if Die small enmities of the south were anything like a respect aide size, 9ff per coni, of the traffic at present recognised as foreign would become inside i raffie.