WORSE JOB
j "We are taking this matter up in the interests of the public," said counsel for the petitioners in a case in the courthouse at Amberley, when allegations were made about the conduct of ■ voting and counting for two of thc ridings in tfie recent elections for the , Waipara County Council. "You are ! taking it up for purely private inte- | rests," retortfd counsel for the respondents. The magistrate (Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M.) said that he couRT not understand anyone standing for a seat on a county council. His ex- , perience of county councils was that 1 one got more kiclcs than halfpcnce for ! one's services. "I know of one worse job," remarked counsel for the peti- : tioners, "and that is being on a city 1 council with a Labour majority."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 247, 9 June 1932, Page 2
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