"UNFAIR COMMENT"
Councillor Foreman, in epeaking on a question of privilege, referred to two articles which nppeared in the Hawke's Bay Herald of June 13 and July 9 respectively, in which, he considered, the proceedings of the council *had. been commented on iu an unfair and improper manner by the writer, who was the Hastings correspondent of the paper. He would therefore move that the vmter of the article referred to be requested to apologise, failing which ho would be excluded frora the meetings of the council. The iaotion was seconded by Cr. . McEwan. The council divided on the quSStl'on. The motion was dcclared to be carried. — From the Hastings Borough Council minutes, August 7., 1888. The sequel to this incident ^as interesting. At the next meeting Ihe council received a letter from Mr H. B. Murdoch acknowledging receipt of a letter from the council demanding an apology. His letter was "received." The very next itein on the order paper, a letter from the returning oificer, advised that Mr H. H. Murdoch had beeu elected to a vacancy on the council.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370507.2.149.174
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 94, 7 May 1937, Page 52 (Supplement)
Word count
Tapeke kupu
181"UNFAIR COMMENT" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 94, 7 May 1937, Page 52 (Supplement)
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in