Installation of Mayor

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 74, 20 December 1888, Page 2

Installation of Mayor

The Borough Council met yesterday for the purpose of installing the Mayor elect, Dr Monckton. The following were present: — Mr Goodbehere, (the retiring Mayor in the chair), Crs. J. C. Thompson, Rutherford, Haybittle, and W. E. Chamberlain. The Chairman having explained the object of the meeting, and Cr. Dr Monckton having read and signed, the usual declaration, Mr Goodbehere coflgratulated the new Mayor on his election r and hoped he would maintain the amicable relations which had existed so long between the chair and the Council. The Mayor thanked, Mr Goodbehere for hiskind expressions of good will, and hoped the same high compliment would be paid him at the end of his term of office as Mr Goodbehere had, of one half of the electors being his ardent supporters. Hethen suggested that the Council Chambers should be closed during the Christmas holidays. Cr. Butherford supported the idea. Cr. J. C. Thompson thought the Mayor should proclaim Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday as holidays. Cr. Haybittle thought the Council should be kept open on Monday as some people might be desirous of calling- to pay their rates. He understood a requisition was in course of signature to the business people, asking them to proclaim Thursday, the 27th instant, as a half holiday. ' * It was proposed by Cr, J. C. Thompson, seconded by Cr. H. Rutherford, that nest Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday be proclaimed holidays.-^Carried. Cr. Haybittle said he desired to congratulate the Mayor on his election. He had opposed him, but only on the grounds that he did not consider those who had got up the requisition to him had acted in a gentlemanly manner as regards Mr Goodbehere who should first have been consulted. He denied that be had spoken in anyway disrespectfully of Dr Monckton during the election. He was quite sure that he would, however, get on well with him in his position as Mayor. Cr. J. C. Thompson explained the circumstances of the requisition having been got up without first consulting Mr Goodbehere. He was satisfied that the future would more than justify the selection they had made. The Mayor said, while he thanked them for their expressions of good will, he thought it would be bad taste to introduce any of the amenities which obtained during the heat of a keenly contested election. The Council then adjourned.