COUNCILLORS THREATEN TO RESIGN
FRICTION WITH A MAYOR. By Telegraph-Press Association. Timaru, March 12. The Waimate borough councillors, oonsidering that the Mayor (Mr. Dash) had slighted them by ignoring the council and calling a meeting of citizens to arrailge a reception to the Minister of Education this week (this being the last straw of a succession of grievances), to-night declined to transact any urgent business, and the Mayor that they would resign in a body as they could not work with him. A deputation from the racing club asked for a half-holiday for race day, and the Mayor claimed it. as his prerogative to grant or refuse, the request, and said he would refuse. Councillors took tho matter out of his hands and resolved and instructed the Town Clerk to advertise a half-holiday.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 149, 13 March 1918, Page 4
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133COUNCILLORS THREATEN TO RESIGN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 149, 13 March 1918, Page 4
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