LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.
EXTENSIVE CONFEEI g JOES. (Per United Press Ass' Nation.) AUCKLA? / £>i April 24. Referring to the Loc t \ Government Bill to a reporter to-da; f tho ii, vn . o. W. Russell. Minister in cl of the measure, mentioned the .conference to bo held in Wellington r /. the e iul of May. Mr Russell said: ‘ ,c l(inle attempts may he made to stop lh r t Bin. t,ut it is the intention of the G a/eminent to push it through if poss as they recognise that the overh ~f local bodies which now ex:s tr . j s a matter that should be remedied at early a date as possible. \\e have been, approached with a view to having every local body in the Dominion represented a t tho conference: but that would lag f,f course, impossible. Anything em’jt-ming more than 60 or 70 delegates / would lie tin workable. it is the into #tion to first hold district conference to select delegates to represent thorn At tho Wellington conference. The mind £ r 0 f delegates has been fixed on a popi Ration basis, and if my memory sei" Acs me right, Auckland city and distri a would have seven delegates on the A Wellington conference,. Mr Russell said IJr at lie hoped that the Bill would he Cjnsidcrcd entirely apart from all party
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Southland Times, Issue 17025, 25 April 1912, Page 5
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224LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL. Southland Times, Issue 17025, 25 April 1912, Page 5
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