ABSTRACT
The reaction of the Association of Municipal Corporations was prompt, forcible and wholly unfavourable. The Association would have nothing whatever to do with the report. Having recorded their complete opposition to the report of the four associations, the Association’s only positive gesture was to bring out of cold storage their own reorganization scheme, adopted on July 23, 1942. This scheme, by that time eleven years old, was based on the erroneous belief that after the war the scope of local government services would be extended. A long-standing grievance of the Association is that the financial difficulties of the counties have been used ‘to prevent the proper government of the expanded areas of county boroughs’. This was a reference to boundary extensions desired by county boroughs.
