MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14770, 8 October 1921, Page 5

MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION

DEPUTATION TO MR MASSEY.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday.

Delegates from the conference of the New Zealand Municipal Association waited on the Premier to-day. Mr Wright (chairman) detailed the more important remits, and asked that those which had been passed at two different conferences should be given preference by Cabinet. Mr Massey congratulated the conference upon the amount of work done. Such work was of great assistance to Parliament. He would not go Into .detail about the remits, but, speaking generally, would say that Cabinet would take an early opportunity of considering them. He could not promise that they would he dealt with by Parliament during the present session, but there might he a chance of attending to the more urgent among thorn. He agreed with the conference that a better way of voting was by striking out tire names of candidates not wanted, instead of putting a large cross against the names of those selected. The proposal of the conference that exemption in the matter of rating should be confined to general rales was one I which would cause a great deal of dissension in the House. Personally lie could not express an opinion until lie had been into it. He .agreed that the Government should observe the bylaws of local bodies unless there were some special reasons for exemptionThe arterial roads proposal would come before Parliament this session, and there would bo an opportunity for considering the proposal of the conference that assistance should he given to local bodies (o maintain those parts of the arterial highways passing through their districts. Personally ho was not afraid that the arterial roads could compete with ttic railways. The latter could hold their own.