“ALL THIS DRIVEL”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 12

“ALL THIS DRIVEL”

CR. LUNDON DENOUNCED BY CR. ENTRICAN HOT WORDS IN COUNCIL A caustic denunciation of the attitude adopted at City Council meetings by Cr. J. R. Lundon toward the business to be put through was made by the DeputyMayor, Cr. A. J. Entrican, at the council meeting on Thursday evening. Cr. Lundon had six -times spoken out the ten minutes allowed under standing orders and it was then 10.30, the council having sat continuously from seven o’clock. Much business remained to be done and unless speeches were curtailed there seemed little prospect of completing the order paper before Anzac Day. When, therefore, Cr. Lundon go-t up to criticise the council’s policy of keeping a sum of £3,945, being the unexpended portion of the Workers’ Dwelling Loan, on fixed deposit, the Deputy-Mayor was moved to exasperation. “Cr. Lundon is making use of information he receives at committee meetings—that is the whole trouble,” Cr. Entrican complained. Cr. Lundon; I am giving away no information. I am simply saying that the money lying in the bank ought to be used for making the workers’ homes more habitable. Cr. Entrican: If we had taken your advice when you proposed that this money should be used for unemployed relief we should all have been in Mount Eden Gaol. Cr. Lundon (hotly); You would be doing more useful work if you were there. Cr. Entrican: Yes, and there others who ought to be there. Cr. Lundon (blandly): Quite so. Then Cr. Entricau opened fire. . . “We have been receiving nothing but obstruction,” he declared angrily. “Cr. Lundon is simply wasting our night. How are to carry on ithe business of the City? XVhy are we wasting our time listening to this man giving all this drivel? There is nothing but fault-finding and talking to the gallery. It is about time we put our foot down and stopped this sort of thing. . . . Cr. M. J. Bennett (fervently): Hear, hear. Continuing, Cr. Entrican commented that ratepayers were not getting any good out of Cr. Lundon’s criticisms. The council had never heard one word of constructive criticism. ' Cr. Lundon was trying to hold the council up to ridicule. The Deputy-Mayor concluded by threatening to move the closure if business was not expedited.