MUNICIPAL CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 123, 17 July 1911, Page 7

MUNICIPAL CONGRESS.

to BE HELD IN WASHINGTON. An International Municipal Congress and exposition, under the auspices of the Association of Commerce, will he held in Washington,, C.S.A., from September 18th to 30th next. The Congress will ho thoroughly international in its scope, and will he the first of its kind ever held in the United States. It is intended to set forth by municipal experts the advancement of municipalities by showing the possibilities of making city government an asset, and of capitalising a city’s attractions. In a communication to the Wellington City Council, read at last night’s meeting, signed by Mr P. C. Knox, Secretary for State, it is stated that all cities should paricipate in the Congress and exposition if they have anything to offer in the way of advanced ideas along such lines as charters, forms of government, municipal accounting, parks, playgrounds', taxation, schools, libraries, police, etc. “It is hoped,” continued the letter, “that each city may he represented -by a personal delegation, and by such contribution in the shape of models, charts, photographs, etc.” Formal invitations would at a later date he forwarded directly to municipalities by the Chicago Association of Commerce. The question of delegation from Wellington was referred to the Municipal Association.