LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 356, 13 September 1933, Page 6

LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION

Personnel to be Announced

WHEN MR. FORBES RETURNS •iqSuAdoo —•uOfTCpossy ssojj Christchurch. Sept. 12. The Minister of Internal Affairs 'the Hon J. A. Young) said to-night that as soo n as Mr. G. W. Forbes returns to New Zealand the personnel of the Local Government Commission promised by Mr. Forbes in Fbruary, 1931, will be announced. No official information regarding the commission is available but rt is learned authoritatively that the chairman will be a magistrate, with not more than four other members. The commission will investigate the finances and administration only of counties and rural districts within county areas and will not touch municipalities or boroughs.