"HONOURS EVEN"

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 4 October 1916, Page 6

"HONOURS EVEN"

i A HAMH.TOK BBJEETiE.- -' ... O"WER ~OF LAND. (By Telegtaph.—Own Correspondent.) TTAMITVroy, this day. Incitement is running high"-over the proposed exchange of 25 acres of Domain lands for St. ";£ndrew'e golf:links, comprising 95 acres, about- four miles 'from the post office. Several meetings ■ have been held recently, both by the Doma n Board and Borough.' Council (who favour the ecneine) *nd the oppositionists. leai nigßt the Town Hall was peeked'to' hear the case against the exchange. Fandemonium reigned from start to finish. Mr. Gruar, the principle epealcer, , aid . r £6t deal at apy. length 'with " fhe' subject' proper. He assailed Mr. Swarbrick. chairman of the Domain Board, and Mr. Fow (Mayor), who he eaid foad refuted to preside over the meeting. He asked the audience to eeleet a. chairman -who would be eubjected "to certain restrictions which* the speaker read out; ''■ J He" also made it a condition that no que»tione were 'to be asked, and no resolu l t ion submitted to the meeting. ipfoa*, during which' Mr. Young, MJ>., ooeupied the diair, and resigned in favour of Mr. F«w, and thi latter gentleman also resigned on i*e grounds that he would not submit to, the restrictions -imposed by - Mr. Gruar, ilri Yoinng S»a 3 reinstated, and Mr. Gniaj endeavoured to proceed. . The heckling became more and mor? pronounced as the night wore on. bn= member of the audience repeatedly called on Mr. Gruar to drop; personalities The meeting terminated, aboofe ! Ji3o, after a vote *ad been taken, amid great confusion, on a motion favouring' the '■exchange, which the chairman declared as! ThonouTß "even." .'' '''