TROUBLE AT NAPIER.
STORMY MEETING OP BOROUGH COUNCIL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Feb. 6. A special meeting of the Napier Borough Council was held to-night' to consider charges brought by Napier tram, waymen against the tramways manager, and it was decided to hold an inquiry. The meeting was a etormy one, and partly in committee. On resuming ia open council, the Mayor (Mr. H. Hill) moved that Councillor A. McCarthy (Deputy Mayor) he suspended. (< Councillor McCarthy called the Mayo* "a d old woman," and then apologia* ed. The Mayor refused to accept the apology. After Councillor Mulvanah had moved that the police be eent for, as Councillor McCarthy refused to vacate Mb seat, a policeman was sent for, and Counefflor McCarthy dared the constable to remote him. The constable, however, assisted Me* Carthy from his chair. The latter took the constable's number, and threatened; proceedings against both constable and council. Then he left the room, and the meeting terminated shortly after. *•
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19180208.2.19
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1918, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
161TROUBLE AT NAPIER. Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1918, Page 4
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