MINUTES OBJECTED TO.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5087, 11 February 1927, Page 2

MINUTES OBJECTED TO.

ALLEGED INACCURACY. BOROUGH COUNCIL DISCUSSION. An unusual position arose at, the meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council last night. The minutes of the ordinary meeting held last month were read, and the Mayor called on the council to confirm them, when Cr. E. Edwards r.ose and objected to the minute dealing with Cr. G. P. de Castro’s remarKS) as recorded, which, he contended, were not correct. Cr„ de Castro also objected. On the particular minute being reread Cr. Edwards said that it was not recorded correctly. There had been no insinuations against; the town clerk. Cr. Flatt agreed. Cr. de Castro said that the minutes were not correct. The reference to the town clerk as it was read amounted to slander. The Mayor moved that the minutes' as read be confirmed. Cr. J. Pinder asked if Cr, de Castro could remember what he had said. Cr. de Castro replied that he could. Cr. Edwards moved that, the minutes be confirmed with the exception that the record of Cr. de Castro’s remarks about the town clerk’s action be deleted. Cr. Flatt seconded, and said that the town clerk might have, token the record at the time, but he had misinterpreted Cr. de Castro’s remarks. The Mayor said that, he could not agree to the. deletion, as there would be no record of Cr. de Castro’s remarks. Cr. Edwards thereupon moved: “That the words ‘that Cr. de Castro suggested wrong-doing on the part n f the town clerk’ be deleted, and substituted with ‘that Cr. de Castro contended that the consent o’f 75 per cent, of the ratepayers in the district had not been obtained at the time the machinery for the Normanby Road special rating area was put in motion.’ ” Cr. Flatt seconded, and on the alteration being made in the minute book the minutes were confirmed.