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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1988
ELECTORAL CHANGE DICTATED BY TIMING OF REVIEW
*
YEAR THAT THE
THE GOVERNMENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT IN DECEMBER LAST
OF EXISTING PRACTICE WHEREBY URBAN COUNCILLORS ARE EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
BY THE TIMING OF DISTRICT BOARDS SHOULD CEASE IN 1989 WAS DICTATED
THE GOVERNMENT,
CHIEF
SIR THE REVIEW OF REPRESENTATIVE DAVID FORD, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THE MOVING
SECOND
READING
OF
SECRETARY,
THE ELECTORAL
PROVISIONS THE PUBLICATION HAD ΤΟ
(AMENDMENT) BILL 1988, SIR DAVID SAID THAT FOLLOWING OF THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT, MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CONSIDER ALL. THE ISSUES MOST CAREFULLY.
"THEY WERE
IN NOT
A POSITION
MAKE ΤΟ
DECISIONS
ON THE BOARDS UNTIL EARLY
MEMBERSHIP OF THE URBAN COUNCIL, AND THE DISTRICT
-
DECEMBER, HE SAID.
AS NOMINATIONS FOR
JANUARY 8,
THE
DISTRICT
WAS
THEREFORE
BOARD
NECESSARY
OPENED ON MAKE THE WHO MIGHT CONSIDER WHETHER
STAND FOR AND TO PLAN THEIR ELECTIONEERING
ELECTIONS
TO
ΤΤΟ
SIR DAVID SAID IT ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE THAT DATE SO THAT POTENTIAL CANDIDATES
COULD PROPOSAL.
A DISTRICT
BOARD,
BE AFFECTED BY THE ELECTION TO ACTIVITIES IF THEY DECIDED TO DO SO.
INTO THE COUNCIL BEFORE THE DISTRICT BOARD
"AND IT WAS NECESSARY TO INTRODUCE THE BILL EARLY SO THAT ENACTMENT WOULD TAKE PLACF ELECTIONS," HE SAID.
SIR DAVID SAID THIS TIMETABLE MIGHT FOR SOME URBAN COUNCILLORS WHO HAD TO MAKE A OR NOT TO STAND.
HAVE CAUSED DIFFICULTIES QUICK DECISION WHETHER
IN RESPONSE "BUT THE REASON WE INTRODUCED THE BILL WAS
THEY STOOD AND URBAN COUNCILLORS WHO WISHED TO KNOW WHERE THEY SHOULD STAND FOR ELECTION TO THE DISTRICT BOARD. AND IT
WAY AND THAT REASON THAT WE BROUGHT FORWARD THE BILL IN THE TIMING THAT WE DID," HE SAID.
MENTIONED WHO MEMBERS SOME REMARKS BY ON
SAED
HE HOPED SIR ON
DAVID REPORT
SUBJECT, THE ATTENTION WOULD ALSO BE DRAWN TO THE SUBMISSIONS WHICH THE SURVEY OFFICE AT THE TIME.
8.000
TO THE WHETHER WAS FOR IN THE
THE AGB MCNAIR
MEMBERS'
MADE TO
THAT WERE
AT
THAT
TIME ON
THIS
PARTICULAR
MAKE CHANGES BETWEEN
URBAN
DISTRICT
COUNCIL.
AND THE
"THERE WERE INDEED SUBJECT, OF WHOM 7,000 WISHED TO
THE BETWEEN RELATIONSHIP DISTRICT BOARDS, HE SAID.
"ONE THOUSAND WISHED IT TO DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS, 98 WISHED
THE PRESENT URBAN
AND
OF THE 116
10
REMAIN AS IT WAS, THERE TO BE A CHANGE.
WHO WISHED THEM INCLUDE
SIR DAVID ADDED THAT OF THE DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS TO SEE A CHANGE AND WHO HAD EXPRESSED A VIEW, NO LESS THAN 82 OF
OF WISHED
MEMBERSHIP EXPAND TO REPRESENTATIVES OF
EACH
DISTRICT
THE URBAN BOARD ELECTED
COUNCIL.
FROM
ΤΟ
AMONG BOARD
MEMBERS.
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