MOTION TO DISMISS
COUNCIL AND TOWN CLERK. . SUPREME COURT ACTION. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, September 13. Following prolonged discussion . in the Opotiki Borough Council, an application was made to the Supreme Court to-day by two councillors, Messrs J. Anderson and S. Shalfoon, for a writ to compel the Mayor, Mr G. S. Moody, to call a meeting and put a motion of which notice was given on Julv 13, "That the Town Clerk (Mr C. H. Fleming) be and is hereby dismissed from his office as Town Clerk." When the case was called, counsel for Moody said the Mayor, "believing he was acting according to the rules, had refused to put the motion, but he now agreed to do so, as he had been advised that the view he took of the position was wrong. Counsel for the councillors, notwithstanding the Mayor's undertaking, asked that the writ be issued, but Mr Justice Herdman said, "If you have a promise from the defendant that he will do just what you want him to do, what on earth is the use of continuing this application. It is only a waste of time and money. What I propose to do is to adjourn the matter." The hearing was adjourned for a fortnight.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 286, 14 September 1933, Page 8
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209MOTION TO DISMISS Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 286, 14 September 1933, Page 8
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