Vendors’ Representative Back On Milk Board

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30511, 5 August 1964, Page 10

Vendors ’ Representative Back On Milk Board

An attempt by Mr G. A. Franks to rescind a decision made at last month’s meeting of the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board to reinstate the vendors’ representative failed at a meeting of the board on Monday. The representative, Mr P. A. Caithness—who in the past has attended the meetings by invitation —was debarred from taking his seat after a discussion in committee at the board’s June meeting. Last month, however, the board decided to reinstate Mr Caithness, but Mr Franks gave notice of his intention to lodge a motion rescinding the decision at Monday’s meeting. When his motion came up for discussion, Mr Franks moved that it be held over for one month. He had been asked to do this, he said, by Mr W. E. Olds, who was ill.

The motion was lost after Cr. H. E. Denton had opposed it. Mr Olds was only one member of the board, he said,

and next month some other member could be absent. Mr Franks described a letter from the vendors’ solicitors as a “stab in the back” and until it was withdrawn or dealt with satisfactorily, their representative should not be present.

Miss H. B. Howard said she felt the board would have nothing to lose by having the representative at the meetings. Mr Frank’s original motion was then put to the board, and lost.

Mr Caithness was present at the meeting.

Escapologist.—John Atkinson, aged 20, wants to hang by his ankles from the top of the 1000 ft Eiffel Tower and escape from a straightjacket. If he gets permission from the police and does the trick he will be given £5O and an engagement at the Casino Club in Burnley, Lancashire, his home town. — London, August 3.