BREAKING THE LAW.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1417, 29 June 1883, Page 2

BREAKING THE LAW.

•j lT mayvbe remembered .that at the last'ineeting of' the' Borough" Council the Clerk brought before its members t 9hargevwe made against them\of Jlgftkiflgihe law by not publishing its balance sheetsvitjhin, they .tiinexpre* scribed by ■then proceeded, to "sit upon" the Wairarapa Daily by resolving that, •it was>aU wrong, .and that thelawwaa iiritact' asVar. as, "were ■ 'cohcerriißd. -We Bcai'cely hoped to carry conviction to\theilunicipal breast, but as a teal Qfi the ; yiewi we advanced ,we : wrote to the Town' Glerk of Christchurch City officer whose opinion would carry considerable weight on such a point witli'most'people.. He rofers to. our icommunicatioh in the'following terms : "Section 132 clearly points out that the annual statement must be published forthwith after!'3oth ! April, with'report of Auditors. This is the course we

puraue to enable the Council to havo the-printed statements consider prior to the annual meeting on the second Tuesday in May : - section 133. J. Muriuy, Town Clerk." It -will be observed that he asserts that the Act

is char on the point we raised, but that •which was clear toius'avid ! is ; ; clear to" an authority like the 1 Town 'Clerk of. Christchurch seems to be a dense fog to j the. members of the Masterton. Borough Council, who. either have not. read'the Act at all or who turn it up-: side down to.suit themselves.' One Councillor went so far as to say that' the remarks of rhe Wairakapa Daily were utterly uncalled for. We can' only repeat that the Borough Council has broken the law, .that if necessary wo can bring forward further evidence in support of our allegation, and that on behalf of the pnblio we claim the right to protest against illegal courses,