CITY LOAN PROPOSALS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2180, 19 June 1914, Page 8

CITY LOAN PROPOSALS

*",.' .irSPECIAL,MEETING POINT, pi- ORDER SUSTAINED Tho special meeting of: tho City Council summoned for yesterday afternoon to discuss certain! notices' of. motion, • held ov J OT'''froiu''.'las't' > .ordinary" meeting,' did .notproceed'to.'that ;business.' On a point .of 'order being' raised,' tho Mayor held that the'standing orders did. not permit .of. the! council dealing with thoso; motions: ,jT I hero..,,wo.re; present: Tho Mayor vMr.,.J. P., Luke), and Councillors ; W. H.'P.' Barber, G." Frost, J. Godber; H.'-Buddlo, W.J. Thompson, L.-■Jl'Kenzio', A. H. Hindmarsh.'M.F. Luckie, It. A. Wright, and T. C. A. Hislop.,. Tho.Mayor apologised for the absenco of Councillor Fletcher. Councillor M. F. Luckio suggested that as.his motion, .under.which it was proposed to refer all the items in the proposals to the■several committees of the council, traversed tlio.wholo of the loan "business, it should be considered first... . But r before this quostion was considered, , Councillor. Hislop raised a point of order. Ho contended that tho meeting was not. in order, for tho Teason that it was not competent for any councillors to call a special meeting to deal with matters adjourned-by the council at its last ordinary meeting to tho next ordinary meeting. ■Tho Mayor sustained the point of or'der. Ho held that it was not competent for any councillors or for the Maj*or to call a special meeting to overrido tho decision of the council setting on their order-paper for next ordinary meeting certain business. The standing orders wero quite definite on the point. Ho had, therefore, no other course than to declare that 1 the meeting was irregular, and that it could not proceed with the Dusihess'. ;! '; ; He was very -sorryi_ in-? deed to" have'to come to'this conclusion,'but he had to■' Keep'"'to' the constitutional course. ■ 'If any councillors did not.agree that his decision was right, ' ho would :bo,very glad if somo council; lor would give notice of motion to challenge, the-ruling. .. Coiinoillor-Hindmarsh suggested that, ■possibly,the council might by unani-' raou's corisent'proeeed to some business, even if they j could, not go on with the' special ibus'iness'ifor 'which the mooting 1 was summoned. ' Possibly ,thcy might go on with Councillor Luckie's motion. Tho-council,- by unanimous consent, could do anything. The Mayor and - others: Not at a special meeting. ...,': ,•..-;,.-'■

,'said. that. tho difficulty,in tho.,way qf,:coniing to/a de,->, cision about the-loan.wass that ; „the: councillors 'Were -not'"in-• agreement. H<s .suggested that an order- to get over this.difficulty .tho Mayor, should call a 0f,., tho' council, and then'at..tho ll ne.xt,meetihg. the proposals .. wo"uld.;g6"througli-nli right. The... Mayor "again', asked that someone shbulcl'mpve"to"challenge his.rul'nrv!„: !i i-.w '-'";'";'''- ',' ; " ; . ..''" Councillor.Hintlinarsh:,' Your ruling is : undouo'tesly ii 'ri{*hb.*'.'''." ':,""!' '. .■',-. The MayorVsai'd, it'woiild be impos- 1 siblp to ihavo, a, .private :-. meeting,.,as Councillor •Hindmnrsh . had ■ suggested, but he hoped that at the next ordinarymeeting jcpuiiftiljors. would'assist him, ' decision on,the loan proposals.Kially.iit'order, that, they might bnfsußmit'ted to/tho- ratepayer's with- ' otft"dcTa'y.',V„ P ""'