DUTIES OF MAYOR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1939, Page 4

DUTIES OF MAYOR

chair taken at mass MEETING. CRITICISM AND REJOINDER IN HAMILTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON. December 21. A protest against the action of the Mayor. Mr 11. D. Caro, in presiding at the mass meeting held at Claudelands on December 4 and in wearing his robes and chain of office was made by Mr C. Croall at a meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council last evening. Mr Croall said that the Mayor should have stopped two speakers. Messrs A. J. Sinclair and Gainer Jackson, who made a political attack on the Government. Mr C. Lafferty supported Mr Croall and expressed the hope that no similar meeting would ever be held again in Hamilton. He hoped the Mayor would not again preside at a meeting which developed into a political debacle. Replying, Mr Caro said that it was the prerogative of a mayor to use his own judgment, and it was his duty to accept the invitation of any body of citizens who asked him to preside at a meeting, irrespective of their political affinities. He was proud to take the chair at the meeting in question and to wear his robes. "May you continue to do your duty in the same way,” said Mr T. G. Reynolds, amid applause from the majority of the council.