SCHOOL HOUSE BAN
County Chairman's Reply To Critics
The Eyre County Council was .duty bound to take drastic action when the rigid regulations dealing with subdivisions were ignored, said the county chairman (Mr C. M. Harman) in a statement. He was commenting on a letter to the editor of “The Press” and newspaper reports about the council’s decision to prohibit the erection of a schoolhouse on Tram Road, Clarkville. “The decision of the county council surely qualifies for the attributes of boldness and determination, and not weakness which is implied. “As chairman of the council, I assured Mr S. M. Millar, chairman of the Clarkville School Committee that I would take every step possible to have this matter resolved. “The subdivision at Clarkville was carried out without the knowledge of the county council. All regulations and requirements were ignored. “Mr H. J. Barnard asserts that I stated that the council was ‘master of the ratepayers’. What I did say was that the council is definitely master of all regulations dealing with subdivisions, and will not tolerate their nonobservance.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31786, 17 September 1968, Page 10
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