MUNICIPALITIES AND THE GOVERNMENT.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11924, 2 May 1907, Page 3

MUNICIPALITIES AND THE GOVERNMENT.

Wellington, May 1. At his installation to-day as Mayor of Wellington, tbe Hon. T. W. Hislop made reference to the necessity for steps being taken to improve the town belts, and expressed a hope that an Art Gallery would be established in the city. He thought there was too much interference by the Government with the work of local bodies. Not only did the Central Government ignore tbe city's by-laws regarding the of streets, at the site for Workmen's Homes, in Cromandel street, for instance, but, although the Council had made a brick building area in the oity tbe Government continued to erect wooden buildings witbin that area. But there was an even greater injustice than this being done by the Government, and that was in applying for an injunction to prevent the Corporation crossing the Hutt Railway with water mains from the Waifluiomsta reservoir.