A QUESTION OF PROCEDURE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19114, 24 September 1927, Page 17

A QUESTION OF PROCEDURE.

TO THE EDITOB 0* THE PBESS. Sir, —Can you give mo your opinion of the following procedure? Recently a public meeting was called to go into ways and means of converting the old gaol, site into a children's playground That meeting resolved itself into a Playground Gommittee for the pur pes J named. After arrangements liad been made for financing the scheme, an executive committee was appointed by resolution with full authority to carry out the actual work of laying out the site. I At a later meeting of the Playground Committee I desired to move that the work should include the making sale of a flight of concrete steps on • the nite. The chairman (the- Mayor) de--7 dined to accept the motion on the ground'that the previous resolution had appointed the executive, committee to carry out the work, and a notice of motion to rescind the previous resolution (appointing the executive) would first be necessary. He adhered to this ruling despite my protest that the final authority still lay with the. general committee. AY as this ruling-correct ? Yours, etc.. T. HEMPSTALK. Lyttelton, September 20tl). [An authority 011 procedure,' to whom this question was submitted, was of opinion that it . was not necessary to rescind the resolution appointing the executive, as ( the Playground Committee could have passed a motion enlarging the powers of the executive to include the question of making the flight of stairs safe, although this question might not. . directly, come within the meaning of laying out the site. It is assumed that the question of the stairs was cognate to the work of laying out the site. The motion relating to the steps was one that properly could be discussed by the Playground Committee, which was concerned with anything pertaining to the preparation of the site for a children's playground, and was not limited to the matter of laying out the site. As to whether anything should be done in respect of the steps, that would have been for the Playground Committee to decide.]