BUSY COUNCILLOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1015, 4 July 1930, Page 16

BUSY COUNCILLOR

GIVES NOTICE TO MOVE FIVE MOTIONS DIVERSE TOPICS Five notices of motion on diverse topics have been handed into the Town Hall by Cr. J. R. Lundon to be moved at the council meeting a fortnight hence. Cj\ Lundon’s first motion is identical with one he withdrew at the record late meeting a week ago. He will move: “That the policy and practice obtaining in the city treasury regarding temporary loans, and the utilisation of unexpended balances of loans raised, after poll of ratepayers, for specific purposes require reconsideration by this council with due regard to statutory requirements.” Aiotion number two suggests:—“That in terms of section 58 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, this council should without further delay fix the quorum of its standing committees.” “That the sitting on June IC, 1930, of Councillors J. B. Paterson, E. J. Phelan and M. J. Coyle, as a Parks Committee meeting duly constituted, was ultra vires; in that they were* not, under sub-section 1 of section 58 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, a quorum of that committee.” Next, Cr. Lundon asks the council to rescind a resolution passed on June 26 adopting the recommendation of tlie Parks Committee (or of three members of it), that the council should approve the terms of a proposed agreement between the council and Auckland Speedways, Ltd. Finally, the councillor wants the recission of an approved recommendation of a sub-committee of the Finance Committee agreed to at last council meeting. If Cr. Lundon so desires, he may speak for half an hour to each of the five motions he has given notice to move. Under standing orders he may address the council 20 minutes in moving each, and 10 minutes in reply to other speakers.