Indignant Mayor.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 May 1910, Page 4

Indignant Mayor.

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The Mayor of Blackpool, Councillor Thomas Fielding, had a, very unwelcome experience on Saturday, which ended in his walking out of a show as a protest. He had consented to open the fourth annual show in connection with the Blackpool Corporation Allotment Holders, in Bcthesda schoolroom, Kent road. He arrived before the advertised time, and waited half an hour. There was then no audience, the only persons present being the show officials and reporters. At 1.30 he mounted the platform and begged to be excused from addressing those present. "I understand," he said, "that this is not the first time the M.ayor coming here has not had a very largo audience. To-day T should say there is no audience at all, for T believe you are the officials. I feel that whoever is responsible .should take into consideration when they asked the Mayor to come here that demands on my time are very heavy.

"T hurried to bo here in time, and there is no audience. After waiting half an hour T think it is very unfair."

If. continued the Mayor, tliey could not get people there at one o'clock, and had fixed two or three o'clock, lie would have come, hut to let him come at considerable inconvenience and have no audience, and no chairman, was unfair. "T am going to mark mv sense of this hy leaving the mom."