From One Sheet to Many.

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 January 1948, Page 4

From One Sheet to Many.

“Don’t be alarmed; I am not going to read, all these pages to you. but I have brought them along to illustrate the growth of your county from the year it started until today," said Mr. W. Morrison, who has just retired from 42 years’ service on the Waitotara County, 29 of them as chairman. to those present at a social in his honour at Maxwell on Saturday, The papers Mr. Morrison referred le were two balance-sheets, that of the first year of the county’s existence, published in 1886, and the balancesheet of last year. The first was a single quarto sheet, a simple statement of receipts and expenditure and a balance-sheet showing assets and liabilities. The other was an imposing document of 27 pages, of closelytyped tabluations, setting forth the business of a much bigger undertaking. Mr. Morrison said that those two documents showed more than, anything how local body work had grown in New Zealand. Those who said that there was less to do, less to worry about now than 40 years ago, did not know the true position.