MOTION DEFEATED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 149, 26 June 1934, Page 10

MOTION DEFEATED.

CONGRATULATION REFUSED. TRAMWAY BOARD ATTITUDE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. By a majority of seven votes to two the Christchurch Tramway Board refused to agree to a motion that a letter of congratulation be sent to the Hon. W. Hayward, a former member of the board, on his appointment to the Legislative Council.' The motion -provoked a bitter discussion, in which Labour members criticised Mr. Hayward. In moving that a resolution be sent Mr. C. E. Jones asked members to forget the past, put all personal feelings aside and make the voting unanimous.

Mr. W. J. Walter, the only other nonLabour member of the board, seconding the motion, spoke of the service of Mr. Hay ward to the board, and described ■him as among the,most able.and broadminded men; inVpublic life in Christchurch. ';'..' ' The chairman, the Rev. J. K. Archer, said the: resolution was very unfortunate, but the speech of Mr. Walter was disastrous. If the resolution had been simply moved .it might have been possible, as a matter of courtesy, to carry it, but Mr. Walter had paid Mr. Hayward compliments as a member of the Tramways Board. The fact was, Mr. Archer declared, that many of the board's present troubles were due to Mr. Hay ward's actions as a member of the Appeal Board. After other Labour members had lepokeo tfie ajpt'oix was .put.and lost, . • <