Council-in-exile to be set up
Up to 200 Riccarton residents went to a meeting in the borough on Saturday to discuss the fight against its forced amalgamation into the new Christchurch City Council. Mr Mark Sadler, a Riccarton resident and the meeting’s organiser, said it was decided to elect a council in exile at the time of the local body elections in October. A suggestion the sitting Riccarton Borough Council be the new council was rejected. Candidates would be called for election to the council in exile. It would remain until “democracy was restored,” organisers
said. Mr Sadler said a planned march after Saturday’s meeting was called off because of poor weather. Residents would launch a campaign to “ginger up” people into voting for the alternative candidates, he said. “I won’t vote for other candidates under amalgamation, only those on the council in exile and I hope other residents do the same,” he said. The member of Parliament for Marlborough, Mr Doug Kidd, and the Mayor of Riccarton, Mr Dick Harrington, spoke at the meeting.
Council-in-exile to be set up
Press, 29 May 1989, Page 7
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