71.   All Part III authorities were to go.

72.   Regional authorities are much happier with a combined approach and it seems possible to retain our individual identity within this framework, while promoting development education.

73.   Local residents, for example, who fear increased traffic can apply for their own traffic calming, since the authorities are now able to introduce it.

74.   No longer are local authorities cast in the role of protectors of unpopular, run-down schools.

75.   Charismatic authority is thoroughly authoritarian in its pure form.

76.   Finally, there is legal authority based on enactments that can be made and changed by formally correct procedures.

77.   A greater gross national product meant that local authorities could be more generous towards the poor.

78.   In particular, two related questions are, How large should local authorities be?

79.   While there may be no fiscal imbalance in aggregate, some authorities may be unable to finance programmes that other authorities find easy to handle.

80.   The district health authority could not be in a better position because it allowed the situation to drift.