HALF-HOLIDAY ISSUE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 11088, 11 April 1933, Page 2

HALF-HOLIDAY ISSUE

Petition to Borough Council QUESTION OP DATE OP LODGMENT RAISED A communication was read at u night’s meeting of the Borough Cn cil from Mr T. Moncur forward petition bearing two hundred a eighty-four signatures, requested 1 - Council to hold a poll to defloen* day for the statutory half-hoiifc In reply to a question by Cr Va, ris, the Town Clerk, Mr R. g, gjj* ' man, said the petition was reeeim on April 3 about 4 p.n.

The Mayor explained that the pel* would be held on Map 3, the date of the election of the Mayor and a Council. *

Cr Wallace contended that the tition was not in order, as the Afi set out that it must he handed less than one month before the d«* of the poll, and it should have be*, lodged with the Town Clerk before April 3.

It was pointed out that April » fell on a Sunday.

The Mayor said that when a dit s fell on a Sunday the statutory obse*. vance was from the following d»j He ruled that the requisition w&Tk order and that the poll be taken on May 3; also that the opinion of th borough solicitor be taken oh the point raised by Cr Wallace and os the question of the general legally of the requisition.