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Taihape Daily Times, 4 January 1919, Page 3

TROUBLE AT MARTON. o j COUNCILLORS ASK MAYOR TO | RESIGN. ! The Mayor (Mr F. C. Wilson) and members of Marion Borough Council are not a happy family and the former has placed himself in sucti a position that five of the councillors have called upon him to resign. It is a we 11known fact that at Marton it has been a case of “pull devil, pull bacor " municipally, for some -onsideraule time past, but the latest development has arisen through the publication of anonymous correspondence signed “Decency,” making an attack on some of Marten’s .best citizens. “Decency’s” | first contribution was in connection with the action of an organised band | of workers operating during the epi- | domic period. When the doctors of the town were put out of action, certain men visited homes, and took the temperatures of sick folk. The medical ipdn duly received these reports In their own sick rooms and prescribed accordingly. The action of the D.A.D.s was considered humane, and worth of ’ i all praise, excepting in the eyes of | one individual, wh'o sought by moans ; , of aponymoug correspondence to throw i j discredit oh the workers and the purity of- their omotives_ Mr Frank R. IT. Brice.--a .well-known land agent of the to Win, -immediately replied to ‘Decency,’*’ unjust and-unwarranted criticisms of the; actions of the workers concerned. This ;dreW' the fire in the direction of Miv and a vituperative letter appeared over the same noin de plume. Th%fat w&s.then in the fire. Mr Brice lost,no time in dealing with the ali Icgedly libellous production, and then ! came the startling announcement that the Mayor had admitted his responsibility fop--thc publication of the letters in pfiestipn,,.’though he said ho sub-mitted-The- correspondence on behalf of another, t whose name he was not In a* ppsitlop to disclose. The publishedcStatement of the Mayor’s Implication jn the' correspondence caused palpcfl,...surprise among his friends, whilst ~j flyp, of the members of the Council took-the matter more seriously. They- informed the Mayor by letter that they can no longer sit with

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