HARBOUR BOARD VACANCIES.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1674, 30 June 1875, Page 2

HARBOUR BOARD VACANCIES.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab,.) Sir, —The following are the clauses providing for filling vacancies respectively : —Clause 12 : City Board to fill up vacancies amongst its appointees.—ln all cases where the member, going out .of office shall have been appointed by the City Board, Municipal Corporation, or other body, being for the time the local Municipal authority of the City of Auckland, the vacancy shall be filled up by a person to be appointed in like manner. Clause 14 :—Vacancy how created.—The death, resignation, bankruptcy, or insolvency, refusal to act or absence from the meeting of the Board for three months of any member shall create a vacancy of his seat, and any vacancy • ocurring in such manner shall be filled up by the i Board, and the person appointed or elected to fill such vacancy shall for the purposes of section nine of this Act, be taken to stand in the place and stead of the, member whose seat shall have become vacant. JN ow, sir, Mr Boy lan stated there was no ambiguity about these two clauses and professed indignation at the Mayor doing his duty and maintaining the dignity of the City Council. I would like td ask Mr Boylan two questions. Firstly, if there was no doubt of the Board having the right to elect in c_se of vacancies, why have they hitherto always submitted to the nomination by the City Council? Does not this look as if they were aware of some blunder in the Act ? Secondly, suppose the Council to have elected three members in May last for three years, and in the present month, from some unexplained cause, all become vacant, is the c ty to be debarred from representatives for .two years and eleven months ? — Yours, Fl^Lux.