MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20542, 18 February 1935, Page 7

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

Agenda for Conference in Christchurch. The agenda paper for the twenty-fifth conference of the Municipal Association of New Zealand, which is to be held in Christchurch, beginning on Thursday, March 21. has now been issued. There are seventy-one remits on the main order paper, and it is expected that the supplementary order paper will contain at least another twenty. These remits cover a wide variety of municipal activities, and deal with such questions as trading hours at beach kiosks and the control of Alsatian dogs. One of the seaside boroughs in the North Island will propose a remit that the Government be approached with a view to obtaining an amendment of the labour laws to allow greater elasticity of hours of trading at beaches and holiday resorts. Another local body will move that the strongest possible representations be made to the Government with a view to the enactment of legislation to provide for the strict control of Alsatian dogs or to forbid their existence in New Zealand altogether. Most of the other proposals deal with questions of general local body administration, and some of them have been discussed at previous conferences. One remit asks that local bodies be exempt from the payment of sales tax.

The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr D. G. Sullivan. M.P.) is president of the association and will preside at the conference. The City Council delegates are Messrs J. W. Beanland (chairman of the Works Committee) and T. H. Butterfield (chairman of the Reserves Committee) and the Town Clerk (Mr J. S. Neville). An entertainment sub-com* mittee has been appointed by the council.