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My take on government calls for further amalgamation of local bodies is that larger regional organisations are less accountable to the local community and more readily manipulated by central government. I also have not seen a shred of evidence that larger councils result in any of the vaunted cost savings, either immediately or forty years out. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594354/mayors-consider-government-s-amalgamation-ultimatum 'The biggest problem councils faced was financial pressure, and amalgamation "doesn't necessarily save money and it doesn't necessarily make everything magically better," King said.'