A Poor Borough Council.

Manawatu Herald, 19 May 1894, Page 3

A Poor Borough Council.

Cast Monday evening the merabers'tf the Onehunga Borough Council must', have wonderfully forgot their manhood to behave in the manner reported, which is as follows: — .jiJ^fc ; special meeting ot the OueCouncil, about 150 Qs(M.sQo< spectators were present. When 'the meeting commenced Mrs "Ksfces^ked the public to withdraw. t Skae& > present would not at first IWV§ u 'the 'room, whereupon Mrs' -•'■■ Yates left the mayoral chair, and amidst great excitement, cleared the room with considerable difficulty, - using personal exertions to put the Mfia#; ; obstreperous individuals out. ■ isijr clearance was no easy task for her, and was not accomplished until ah*} had,' in putting her head out of the Council room window to look for the police, run the gauntlet of the jSers of that part of the crowd she 1 ha,d put outside. The room was cleared of all but three pressmen. The, crowd all this time were jeering outside or hammering and s hairing the Council room door/ and Mrs

Yatee, leaving the chair, nopened the door, and threatened if the crowd did not clear out she would seL. ibr the police. Meanwhile two sections of the councilloi'3 were wrangling amongst themselves. Cr Hastie said the Cr Jackson section was at the root of the trouble and his action brutal. Cr Jackson retorted that if his brother councillors liked to lie down in the gutter and let Mrs Yates tread upon them, he would not. The business was then gone on with under great difficulties, but suddenly the gas was turned off at the meter and the room left in darkness amidst great uproar and cheer • ing from outside. Mrs Yates made her way to the doorway and turned on the gas. Subsequently a hot discussion took place and the Mayor applied the chture to Cr Jackson. After the meeting the Mayor and members were the subject of a warm demonstration at the hands of the crowd whom Mrs Yates addressed from the window, and told them ihey were a disgrace to the town and to the mothers who reared them. As she left the building she was hooted and yelled at.