Answers to Correspondents.
Enquirer writes: — "Sir, what is your opinion of the conduct of a chairman of a public meeting who declines to put a motion from the chair because he knows that such motion, if put, would be carlied a result which he openly stilted he did not wish to see ? And f urther, sir, I wi«h to ask what would be the proper courbe for the meeting to tike when a chairman falls to tho level of a partisan and betrays the trust repooed in him ?" [There can be only one opinion regarding tho aotion of the chairman referred to, namely, that it is altogether unjustifiable. A chairman's duty is clearly to guide the conduct, not the opinions of a meeting. Itj seems to us that a meeting, unless unanimous can do very little when the chairman ceases to be impartial. People t-hould exercise moro care than they do in the choice of a person to preside over public meetings.]
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Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1472, 8 December 1881, Page 2
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162Answers to Correspondents. Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1472, 8 December 1881, Page 2
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