HOT WORDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 149, 25 June 1936, Page 10

HOT WORDS.

TAKAPUNA PLEASANTRIES.

COUNCIL DISCUSSION.

A recommendation from the works committee that a ratepayer of Takapuna should be released from certain obligations undertaken when he subdivided his property .a number of years ago led to some 'heated argument at the Takapuna Borough Council meeting last nteht. i

The Mayor, Mr. J. Guiniven, said that he could not accept that portion of the works committee report, as it involved the scrapping of a resolution of a former council. That would have to he done by notice of motion.

When Mr. Guiniven used the words "ultra vires" Mr. W. M. White said that the Mayor did not know what they meant.

The Mayor: I know enough not to be bothered by your bullswool.

Mr. White: -If I descended to your level I would bandy words with you. Give us the resolution, pin yourself down to something.

The Mayor replied that there was the resolution of 1924, but the town clerk said that he did not have those minutes. Mr v Gl|iniven_ added that he and ■ the councillors Would be liable to the ratepayers If the resolution were overlooked.

At. a.later stage, Mr. White said that the Mayor had got certain correspondence "and was" sifting on legal opinions. • -

The .Mayor: Come and have a look under niv- chair.

Mr. White: Don't make' yourself a bigger fool than you are.

Mr. Guiniven: I would not like to he as big a tool as you are. My desk is open for inspection • any time. Yourimagination is too "vivid for anything. If you see a sparrow on the road you think it is an ostrich.

Mr. White repeated that the correspondence on the subject in 1924 should he open to the council. ■ There were legal opinions which the Mayor was sitting on.

The Mayor: You are in dreamland. You are miles and miles away.

As the Mayor refused to accept certain portions of the works committee report it was left over for consideration at a subsequent'meeting.