AN ANCIENT FRIEND.
Local government reform is promised but Parliamentarians havo read this annually for a decade. Though the Bill is not yet statute law, had the Mackenzie ".Ministry survived probably a, workable Bill might havo been evolved as a result of Mr G W. Russell's painstaking labours, but unices the Massey Government is prepared to adopt, that measure almost as it stands, a Local Government Act of a comprehensive nature is scarcely likely to becomea fact in 1913. The Government ha«. boen well posted in regard to tb© system of subsidies to local bodies m JNew. South Wales, based upon tho ; general rate levied by the local authority, and some such eystcan will bo proposed thi* session. It may do away with someof the incessant clamour for grants, especially if the Australian system is followed to the extent of fixing the subsidy quota triennially.
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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13756, 23 June 1913, Page 4
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145AN ANCIENT FRIEND. Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13756, 23 June 1913, Page 4
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