HALCOMBE TOWN BOARD.
> MERGING CARRIED. At Oroua County Council meeting on Saturday, the Chairman, Mr Hugh Burrell, in.exercis© of the powers conferred on it by section 31 of the Counties Act, 1908, Oroua County Council on the petition of a majority of the . ratepayers of Halcombe.Town. District resolve by way of Special Order l that on and after December 7th, ..the said ' town district shall be merged into the County of Oroua, and the Board thereof abolished. He recounted what had taken place in regard to petitions. Council had promised if a good petition were put in the question of merging would be favonrabty considered. r Such small local bodies did not justify their, existence. The scdall amount raised in Halcombe and the big amount spent in administration- was not sound government. After considerable discussion the motion was carried unanimously.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10494, 4 November 1912, Page 5
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140HALCOMBE TOWN BOARD. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10494, 4 November 1912, Page 5
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