COUNTY COUNCIL INDIGNANT.
CIRCULATION OF RUMOURS,
THREATENED LEG/vL ACTION
At the conclusion of the ordinary business of the County Council on Monday evening the chairman, Mr A. Scholes, said he had noticed a reply in the Chronicle to the statement made by the speaker that he believed Mr Wilson to be responsible for informing the Minister for Public Works that the Council bad done no work on the main road. Mr Wilson evidently meant to deny that he was the Ministers informant and if that was so he- the chairman —svould accept such dsnial. With respect to Mr Wilson's general statements in the same letter, he would take the oppjrtnnity of replying in order to put the mattes plainly to the public.
There was another matter in connection with the same subject concerning which he thought it proper to take a different course. A letter had been written under a nom-de-plume and published in the Chronicle. That li-tter cast a serious reflection upon the speaker and he had placed that matter in the hands of his solicitors. The opinion obt ined from the very highest legal authority stats that the writer was open to an action for libel and he intended to seek legal redress. He regarded the letter not so much as an insult to himself as an insult to the whole Council.
Cr O'Dwyer said he thought the chairman had taken the proper course. Rumours and innuendos were circulated concerning the Council with a cunning worthy only of the lower animals, and it wa« time step 9 were taken to prevent the circulation of such base insinuations. The man did not live who had not made mistakes and the Council had no doubt made mistakes, but it was time the public men of the country were protected from the vile insinuations which were prompted by unworthy mo'ives. They were all doing their beat in the public interests, and if thone who were in opposition to them could not give them credit for their efforts, they could, at least, withhold the insinuation of wrong doing.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 652, 18 March 1914, Page 5
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346COUNTY COUNCIL INDIGNANT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 652, 18 March 1914, Page 5
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