"NO QUORUM."
CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEES. COMPLAINT IN CHRISTCHURCH. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. There was a lively discussion in the City Council on attendances at committee meetings. Councillor E. H. Andrews said that since the present council came into being tho attendance at committee meetings had been "absolutely wretched." Often the chairman had to scrape round to get a quorum, and had to rope in the Mayor. Sometimes committees met without a quorum. Councillor D. G. Sullivan, M.P., replied that Councillor Andrews had made one o { his endeavours to reflect on the Labour majority in the council, and said that in the life of the previous council difficulty was experienced in getting quorums of the Concert Hall, Housing and Milk Supply Committees. There was less justification for a meeting lapsing when the Citizens' Association had a majority than there was when there was a Labour majority, for Labour councillors had their daily work to do. The Mayor also spoke, and quoted figures to show that during the term of the previous council committees often had no quorum.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 192, 16 August 1927, Page 5
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