SQUABBLE OVER A PUBLIC APPOINTMENT.
pee rasas association. Ikvsrcabgili., July 4 The Invcrcargill corporation, solicitors advise that the method of ballot for the town clerkship last week was irregular, iu that the voting was uol open. They advise-that the Council should b3gin de novo. A councillor, after Mr T. W. Walker had received eleven yotes as against oue in the final ballot, moved as an amendment that a candidate who had gone down in the fourth ballot, be appointed, but the Mayor declined to receiye the amendment. The solicitors now say lie ought to haye done bo. The matter has given rise to some feeling and Press correspondence, mostly in defence of Mr Walker's appointment, which was popular.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8149, 5 July 1906, Page 2
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118SQUABBLE OVER A PUBLIC APPOINTMENT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8149, 5 July 1906, Page 2
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