CHARGES FOR SUNDAY CONCERTS
.RECRIMINATIONS. AT. THE CITY ■ COUNCIL. The question of allowing a charge to bo made tor Sunday evening entertainments was again raised at tuo meeting of the City Council last night, when a letter, was received from the Wellington Ministers' 'Association in appreciation of the strong attitude-the_ Mayor had taken: up in protesting against allowing charges. '.'■'■ : ■■ ' ; 'Councillor T. C. A. Hislop referred to a Mayoral statement in the Press to the effect that permission to chargo at a-concert in aid of the Patriotic .Fund had been granted by the council during his temporary absence. Councillor Hislop said th'at when His Worship left ■the room a division on the question was imminent;... The action of .the counoil came after careful deliberation, and ho objected to the. Mayor, stating that a mistake had been made.
Councillor R. Fletcher , also protested against, the statement made by the Mayor;.' Councillor'A. H. Hindmarsh commented on the religious bigotry, stirred up when .the council decided to .put the matter. | plainly and allow ia charge. Nothing was said when the council'allowed other, bodies* to almost refuse' admission unless'", something was put in the plate, shaken under the people's noses, at the door.. . What right had a religious body to say ithat certain members of the council; were anti-religious and antiChristian? It was an impertinence. • Councillor J. Godber said that the remarks of a clerical member that thero was a section of . the council which was aiiti-Christian and anti-religious were beneath contempt. • After a £ood deal of discussion the Mayor replied; He said , that when the matter,.was .under consideration at a recent meeting,' in' committee, he; spoke against the proposal. He left the room for a few': minutes,'. and .when he camo back chargo had been granted. He. had .not_ been given the opportunity to vote, or. express an opinion in open council. , Acrimonious : interjections interrupted the meeting on,different:occasions, and the' Mayor asked several councillors to conduct themselves' like gentlemen. He felt that he had done nothing more than was warranted in the circumstances.
The letter of the Ministers' Association wiis/"received." .. ,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2246, 4 September 1914, Page 8
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346CHARGES FOR SUNDAY CONCERTS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2246, 4 September 1914, Page 8
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