LABOUR PARTY RULING
AUCKLAND COUNCIL CHAIRMANSHIPS
REJECTION BY TWO MEMBERS
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 27. Two Labour members of the Auckland City Council. Mr P. T. Curran and Mrs M. M. Dreaver, who were committee chairmen on the last council. have decided to ignore a local ruling by their party that Labour councillors must refuse chairmanships in future. Mr Curran said today: “We are elected to do a job. If I am asked to take a chairmanship again I will take it.” Mrs Dreaver said: “I think the ruling is silly. As long as we keep to the policy of the party there is no reason why Labour members of the council should not be chairmen. Trouble occurred in Otago last year over the same point. The national executive of the party gave a ruling that such a decision could be taken only by a caucus of Labour council members.”
Labour councillors will hold a caucus when the final council returns are announced. On the provisional count Labour has seven members on a council of 21.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28137, 28 November 1956, Page 21
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