Onehunga Council May Not Attend

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 1

Onehunga Council May Not Attend

TRANSPORT PARLEY MR. MORTON’S POSITION In connection with the conference of local bodies called by the Mount Roskill Road Board for Monday evening to discuss the question of Mr. F. S. Morton’s position on the Transport Board, the Mayor of Onehunga, Mr. E. Morton, announced this morning that it is doubtful whether the Onehunga Borough Council willattend the conference. The council, he says, has important business to consider on Monday evening, embracing the estimates for the year, and a conference with Mr. Geville Walker on an important drainage scheme. It will be remembered that Mr. F. S. Morton wrote to the Onehunga Council asking to be relieved of his position on the Transport Board as soon as possible, but the council at its meeting on May 13 decided to ask him to reconsider his decision. At the following meeting on May 20, however, this resolution w 7 as rescinded because it was then discovered that Mr. Morton should have tendered his resignation to the chairman or secretary of the Transport Board. The town clerk was therefore instructed to get in touch with the other local bodies interested with the view to electing Mr. Morton's successor on or before May 31.

In the meantime, however, the Mount Roskill Road Board took up the question and called a meeting of those local bodies for Monday evening next, but it is now doubtful whether the Onehunga Borough Council will be represented at that conference.

The Mayor of Onehunga intimates that he will submit the question to the council at its meeting on Monday evening, and it will rest entirely upon the decision then arrived at whether the council will attend the conference or not. The other districts are: Mount Roskill, One Tree Hill, Mount Wellington, Panmnre and Ellerslie, and as far as has been ascertained they will all be present at the conference on Monday evening to discuss whether they will recall Mr. Morton and appoint his succesor before May 31, or, as an alternative, allow Mr Morton to retain his seat on the board until after May 31, and then, on his resignation being received, call for a poll of ratepayers to elect his successor.