Having m view these considera tions, and looking at the deep rooted discon tent with the present system that prevails m the .district south of the Rangitata, your committee, after grave consideration, are of opinion that any attempt to remedy this dis content by trifling amendments m the present system, would prove futile, aud that it is for the interests of the whole province that this question should be forthwith finally settled. Your committee, therefore, recommend that the fullest control should be given to the inhabitants of that district over the revenues that arise within the district, and over the local affairs of the district. Your committee further recommend that the province should be dividvd into two parts, and that the dis trict south of the Raugitata should be erected into a county entirely separate from and independent of the northern part of the province of Canterbury. Takiug into con sideration, m the first place, the government of the county, your committee recommend that the county should be governed by a board consisting of fifteen members, three for each of the road board districts as at present existing, and three for the Municipality of Timaru. " Your committee recommend that m con sideration of the large powers with which it ia proposed that the Board should be invested, the members should be elected directly by the people, and not nominated by the Road Boards, as is the case m the existing Timaru aud Gladstone Board of Works. As it is pro posed that the Board should have extensive authority to levy rates, the Committee sug gest that the ratepayers' rolls of the various Koad Boards m the County should be the basis of the electoral rolls for the County Board; and that the right of Toting for members of the Board should be confined to those who are liable to pay rates, either directly as occupiers, or indirectly as owners, and whose names appear m the ratepayers' rolls m either capacity. For the sake of con venience, the electoral districts for the County Board should be for the first instance coterminous with the present Uoad Board districts. One third of the members of the Board from each district should retire annually. The Board should have the power of electing a chairman who should hold office for one year, and should have an original as well as a casting vote. 