MAYOR CENSURED.
TROUBLE AT WAIMATE. Timaru, May 22. ; The.new- Mayor of Waimate. Mr. Geo. Dash, has fallen foul of the council. At a meeting on the Bth inst. ho,ordered the •I,Wn Clerk to enter ,in the. minutes the fact that he had "censured" Councillor Inkster (one of the oldest Cpuncillors) for defying the chair by continuing to refer to "old estimates" when told not to' do so. Councillors protested 'at the time against the Mayor's order.. To-night the Mayor ruled out of order a motion ho expunge that minute, and on councillors insisting, the Mayor declared the meeting closed. He lelt the chamber and ordered the Tcwn Clerk, to leave also. Councillors immediately appointed a Deputy-Mayor, ordered the Town Clerk to remain and continued the business. A motion was submitted that the censure be expunged. It was said this could not be idone' as if) was a correct record,, so an amendment was moved, and carried unanimously, expressing 1 disapproval of the Mayors 'action in censuring The latter thanked councillor for' the fight put up for thei right of councillors generally. ' >
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19170526.2.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 26 May 1917, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
181MAYOR CENSURED. Taranaki Daily News, 26 May 1917, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in