'BREEZE' AT BOARD MEETING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 4

'BREEZE' AT BOARD MEETING

Trouble Over Non-recording | of Voting CENTRAL POWER BOARD "This board as breaking up, and I'm sorry; I don't want to stay here as chairinan if this is going to happen, ' ' said the chairman of the Central Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board, Mr A. C. Russell, during the course of a short and rather heated discussion at this morning 's meeting. He expressed a desire for a more harmomous atmosphere at meetings, and the "breeze" soon died down— -but not before a member announced his intention of resigning. This member did not go on with the matter, however. The trouble arose when member s were discussing 4he non-recording of voting at the last board meeting Mr A. C. Holms asked whether the names of members who voted on a Cert&in matter should be recorded, and it was explained that the secretary-manager, Mr G. E, Fowler, had not done so. When the questiqn of conflrming the minutes of the last meeting wae brought up this morning, several members were at variance in regard to the nonrecording of names, and it was while the chairman declared that the board was "breaking up" that Mr M. Ryan announced his dntcntion of resigning. The chairman: This board does not seem to be working together as it should. Mr Holms: There is no suggestion of the board breaking up at all. All I asked was whether the names of voters should be recorded. I wanted to know this because, at the last meeting, there were three division s when we were dealing with one question. Mr W. A. Chambers: I am sure the whole of thds board is loyal, and there is no question of breaking up. But I think it is ab'solutely necessary that the proeeedings of a local body should be done in the proper order. The chairman: They are being done in the proper order. There was a mistak© on the part of the managing secretary, and it is being reetified. Mr S. J. Witherow: I think really that the chairman 's remarks are unealled for When a division it taken, like that at the last meeting. the members usually want their names recorded, but I don't know if dt was asked for on that occasion. "Let's get on; let's get on," commented other members, and the discussion lapsed.