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Waipa Post, Volume 47, Issue 3357, 29 July 1933, Page 7

I.ocal government reform has been in the air for a very long time. Some two and a half years ago the Prime Minister indicated that -the--Govern-ment was going to institute an inquiry into the whole subject,, but nothing has been done. The acting Prime Minister, Mr Coates, told the conference of the New Zealand Counties’ Association on Wednesday that he and his colleagues had been discussing, the question of local body government-for the last three or four months. What the country 'wants,, in its desire for a reduction in the cost of both general and local government, is action..'The trouble is that no particular bod|y is prepared to offer a voluntary sacrifice for the general gcod. Mr G. A. Monk put the- case in a nutshell at yesterday’s session of the Counties’ Association Conference, when he said that, while every memlber of a conference of local body representatives in his district had favoured amalgamation, each was individually opposed to his own county losing its identity. The Government in this particular connection should take the initrattVEltoldly and determinedly, aiming Vat/ comprehensive rather than piecemeal ‘ reforms. ~