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Public Health and Sanitation.
Education.
Social Welfare.
Public Works and Town Planning.
Public Utilities.
Fire Brigade.
Parks, Gardens, Places of Amusement and Recreation Grounds.
Licensing of Vehicles and the issue of various other
licences.
At its first inception the Municipal Council should assume
immediate responsibility for the present functions of the Urban
Council and for the parks and recreation grounds, etc. The
transference to the Council of each of the other matters which
I have enumerated should thereafter form the subject of full and
careful planning in which the Government and the Council itself
would participate.
I envisage the appointment for this purpose of a Commission
consisting of representatives of the Government and of the Council,
under the Chairmanship perhaps of the Colonial Secretary. This
Commission, which should be formed as soon as possible after the
Council has first been convened, might be able in some cases to
provide for the full transference of a service forthwith; in other
cases it might recommend a more slow and gradual process; but in all
cases it would have before it as a definite aim the full ultimate
transfer to the Municipality of each of the services of which at the
inception of the Constitution it may have been decided that it is to
become a Municipal Service. The Commission would of course deal with
the detailed application of such general principles as may be laid
down in the original constitution for the transfer or secondment of
Government officials to the service of the Municipality. It would
deal with the financial implications of the transference of each
service, subject again to such general principles as will have been
laid down; and finally it would deal with the question of the
amendments to existing legislation which would be involved. I believe