PROMPT RESIGNATION.
% COUNCILLOR AND A .TENDER. - . The Devonport-Borough Council lost a useful member with great dispatch at its meeting on Tuesday night (says the Auckland "Herald") by. the, resignation of Mr. J. Mays. The council recently Called for tenders for thfr construction ui' a. new reservoir at Mount Victoria, and. tho firm of- Mays and. Gordon suddenly decided ,to tender, for tho work. Only one. other .- tender for put'in, and that of Messrs. Mays "ind Gordon was somewhat tho lower. As members of local bodies may not be financially interested in important works being carried out .by or for such . bodies, it became necessary for Mr., Mays, as »■ member of tho iirm, to resign his seat and he passed his resignation over the table on the . spot.' The council was apparently • a.-littl© .torn between, its - liking for, Mr; Mays as a councillor and its good wishes for his business,; and ono councillor -suggested that for the sake'of the £39 4s. Bd. the council might as well keep him arid accept. the other tender. The resignation was ■ accepted' ' with regret, and a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Mays' for his past services was passed.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19101216.2.32
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
194PROMPT RESIGNATION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in