COUNCILLOR WALKS OUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 166, 16 July 1931, Page 10

COUNCILLOR WALKS OUT.

AFTER CLASH WITH MAYOR.

RECRIMINATIONS AT TAKAPUNA,

A sharp verbal clash at the meeting of the Takapuna Borough Council last evening ended when one member of the council walked from the room, after a declaration that he would no longer sit under the Mayor. The council was considering a notice of motion to rescind a previous decision to utilise unemployment scheme five in the construction of a rockery upon the boundary between Milford Park and the property occupied by the Pirate Shippe. lie motion stood in the name of Mr. L. H. Titchener, who made a good deal of the point that the Mayor, Mr. J. Guiniven, had not adopted the procedure implied in the council's standing orders by ordering the suspension of-the work upon receipt of a notice to rescind signed by about half the members of the council.

Several heated exchanges occurred be-' -tween the Mayor and .Mr. Titchener, the former finally interjecting with an observation that Mr. Titchener was there only to cause trouble, and to block the administration of himself as Mayor.

Mr. Titchener: I am not here to cause trouble, but to do my duty in accordance with my conscience. The Mayor: No, you have not intelligence enough to cause trouble. Mr. Titchener replied with great heat, and the Mayor immediately called npon him to withdraw an expression. He replied that for the sake of the borough he would withdraw it. He then rose from his seat and proceeded to make his way through the crowded chamber. Halting near the door, he said he would decline to sit any longer under such a man as the present occupant of the Mayoral chair. After Mr. Titehener's withdrawal Mr. J. F. Colgrove took up the case for rescission, and eventually the motion to rescind was carried, the dissentients being the Mayor and Mr. J. Hamilton.