CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HARBOUR. BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5476, 6 February 1885, Page 3

CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HARBOUR. BOARD.

jlr Graves Alckin Unseated,

The term for which the City Council reprc.antatiTesinthe Harbour Board had been , nJ havinc oxpired by effluxion of time, ;h?SSiast ni Bht> .procoeded to?l th6 t imiM The retiring reprosontativea vaCfthe Mayor, Cr. Aiokin (Chairman of SfsKboS yßoard), Cr. Devoro, and Cr. W?? Jtokochoto, who occupied the chair, L«l tho re-olection of Cr. Graves IX, and in doing so, pointed to tho fact tXtb* gentleman lad Jevoted a consider!blo amount of time and donee of aUen- ?• to the businosa of both Council and w^bonr Board, and that consequently ho ominently fitted to advance and con- *"* Sipal intereeta in tho Board. His Son as Chairman of tho Board entitled r, toßurnß seconded tho nomination. Cr'Montague proposed tho olootlon of r\. rioldio who, ho said, had already ronj J^vnluablo and lengthened sorvico in tf Council and Board. Cr. Qoldie was i wfllv interested in tho morcantilo mnnno i r the port, nnd municipal interests would ftW»hia care- Ai)ftrfc fr, om this itnMther. ho thought thnt such oftices Ww the round of tho Council, nnd fot be kept ins few hands. Ct Waymouth seconded. CriOarratt proposed the Mayor. Jv Airkin. in seconding the ndmination, iJd toi tiiefact that;Mr Waddel had JZTnomborof tho Board for fivo years ofd praißed the ability ho had displayed & Ct. Dignan nominated Cr. Devoro. rv' Upton seconded. ft Masefield nominated Cr. Mackechme, •ndCf La Koche seconded. Cr Mackechnio indicated that if "new hl9o<i" wero desired ho was quite willing to was thon taken, and resulted as fellom --The Mayor, 18; Cr. Mackechnie, ,16■ ™'. Devore, 15; Cr. Goldio, 11; Cr. an jcrs. Goldie, Maokechnlo, and Devore were accordingly appointed to Jjpittent the City Council at the Harbour Aickin took tho opportunity to thank the nine Councillors who "had voted for him, S well as those who had seen ht to vote uabatbim. These latter had conferred a Seat benefit upon him. They had cerSr added to his income, inasmuch as ho Hedno longer to devoto hia services., Sas they might be, to either Council or Sour Board. He would resign from the Council and apply his time to his own busimU ,The vote which had just boen given !»j"'no doubt intended as a direct IS, to himself, and an insult to the Wt of which he had the honour to be Hrpari. He was not surprised at it. It fad oome to his knowledge that for more than a week past a systematic canvnes had been going on by persons interested in a rhineo The present vote was due to that canvass Ho had endeavoured to do his datv in' both bodies fearlessly and disinterestedly, and ho bolieved that he had succeeded. Ho now retired from them both without dishonour to thorn or discredit to *Cr Garratt. deprecated tho remarks which Cr. Aickin Tiad made. Even if there hid been a canvass, tho present election was t public one, and when there were five candidates and only four persons were wanted some one must be defeated. After his onblie experience Cr. Aickin should have Un prepared to accept defeat as well as mcem He was sorry that he should have taken the matter so personally. The Chairman regretted exceedingly the remit "of the election. It would have been a (fracefnl act on the part of the Council to have re-elected Cr. Aickin as a member of the Harbour Board, seeing that he was Chairman of that Board. The matter then dropped.