MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 26 July 1912, Page 4

MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE.

HEAVY BUSINESS PAPER.

Tli© annual conference of the Municipal Association will o£ien in Wellington on Monday next. jNoison will bo represented by 'the Mayor (Mr T. A. H. Field) who is a vice-president of tho Association. No delegates have- been chosen by the boroughs of .Richmond and iUotueka. The remits number 10!, of which tho Nelson City Council is responsible for six. These cover recommendations that borough councillors be elected for a term of throe years, and that one-third retire by rotation in each year; that local authorities be given, power to endorse or suspend plumbers' and pipe layers' licenses • that local authorities be given power to compel frontagers to clear noxious weeds on. roads; that the Hating Act lie amended to enable discounts to be given for prompt payment; and that the same Act, sections 13, 15, and IC, and thosecond schedule be amended by substituting "February" for "March," to< Bring the dates into conformity with the amendments already made in this direction by the Act of 1910. Grey Lynn suggests the taxation of all tickets of admission to places of amusement, the tax to form part of a fund for maintenance* of hospitals and relief of distress.

Abolition of licensing committees is urged by Gisborn-e, with transference* of such powers to the local authorityNew Plymouth suggests an increase, in Jioense fees for hotels, such fees not being commensurate with the value of the monopoly created by the granting of tho licenses.

There are nine remits dealing with, tho regulation of motor traffic and requiring drivers to possess certaificates of competency.

There are also important remits urging various amendments of the Local Bodies' Loans, Public Health, Hating, Local Elections, Public Works, and Municipal Corporations Acts.