OAMARU HARBOUR BOARD

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23810, 2 December 1942, Page 4

OAMARU HARBOUR BOARD

MINUTES OF MEETING CHALLENGED (0.R.) OAMARU, December 1. The proposal to dispense with the services of the harbourmaster (Captain H. S. Cox) was again referred to at the monthly meeting of the Oamaru Harbour Board to-day, when Mr A. C. McLelland, challenging the minutes of the, last meeting, called upon Mr E. S. Brewster to state whether or not he had moved the original motion about which there has been so much controversy. Mr Brewster did not reply. After the minutes had been read Mr McLelland asked the board merely to receive them, as he would move that they should be adopted with the deletion if the following passage: “Mr Ireland raised the matter in regard to the Oamaru Mail’s’ report of the last board neeting, and his contradiction of the epnrt, and moved ‘that in view of the ■ tntement made in the “Oamaru Mail” md elsewhere that the board had boore it a resolution that the harbourmaser'.s services should be dispensed with m three months’ notice, the board cishes to inform the public that no uch resolution came before the board.’ The motion was seconded by Mr A. V, Barnett, and after discussion was :arricd.” The minutes were received and Mr .IcLclland moved along the lines inlicatcd. “The minute to which I rain cl’erring is untrue,” declared Mr Mc.ellancl. “and I don’t agree that an inorrcct record should go through the nnks.” Mr McLelland added that the hilomcnt in the minute “that no suen evolution came before the board” was correct, but it could not e denied that there was a motion, mverl by Mr Brewster and seconded v Mr Ireland, to dispense with :he .irbmirmastcr. That the board did not ote on that motion was purely benuse the speaker moved an amendlent to defer the matter for me i n ill hj. The chairman: Either the minute is true record, or it is not. That is all e are concerned with. Mi- Marshall: The minute is not acauiv a correct record. Let us be canid with one another. The whole hi c ((ho proposal to dismiss the harnimiasteri was before the board. As ii- McLelland shdes, on being put to ic vote, the motion was defeated, only ie mover and seconder voting for it. The minutes as presented were then lopierl. “1 visli to make an emphatic pro--t against this procedure,” said Mr cLolland, “and I want my protest iloved in the books. The record loro referring (n the harbourmaster not tine, and it goes in the books '• ail time. I challenge that state-r-rit. and 1 now ask Mr Brewster to y whether or not he moved the solution to dismiss the harbnurma;r Mr i’aov. ter did not reply and ’he riiM na-vod on to other business.