NO MAYOR IN TIMARU
FORMAL RESIGNATION AT AUDITOR’S SUGGESTION. BY Telegraph Timaru,'November 15. Arising out of the fact that Mr. G. J. Wallace, Mayor of Timaru, did engineering work for the borough council nine months before he joined the council, the account for which (£l9) was paid after he became Mayor and had sold his business, the Auditor-General bas written suggesting that ho should refrain from exercising the function of Mayor or councillor till such time as he shall have been re-elected, in which case no further action on the part of the Audit Department would be necessary. A formal resignation, it was stated, would facilitate adjustment of the position. At a special meeting of the borough council to-night, Mr. Wallace resigned and the council adjourned till next Thursday night for the purpose of electing a Mayor.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 8
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137NO MAYOR IN TIMARU Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 8
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