WORDS ACROSS THE TABLE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 595, 25 August 1909, Page 9

WORDS ACROSS THE TABLE.

•EXCITING' INCIDENT AT A BOARD " v , MEETING. Illy Tolekraph.-Special Correspondent) Auckland, August 24. The Auckland Charitable Aid Board has in'unenviable reputation for the asperity with which discussions' are at times conducted round its board. Hardly a meeting passes without some little incident which ■foes not figure on the order paper. In yc3'/CTday's interlude the participants were Messrs. Rutherford and Coyle, while several other members embroidered tho dialogue with aside?; and frequents appeals "to the ; .., : ■■':'•'.■ • 'Mr.*-Johns.: was: the.'innocent cause-of.! {he; first breach.;; He-moved avmotipn' connected •■:■ with 'the: constitution .;of; committees,:.and / .Mr;' Coyle,; hot addressing, anyone ,in par- ;.'■■;■ 'ticularj-.,described'.'it as-'a* waste, of time, as: .most of Mr. Johns's '-"reforms", were in force already; 'and Mr. : Johns knew it as well as any body,,.;and; Mr. Johns'; had I been 'beating : the air for'tho last two", meetings. 1 :. :■••:■; r---:,'Mr. Rutherford objected "to ally member oharacterisingany other member'svmotion in ; such, terms, ajid.&aid something across the .■-■'.\'liablo;-to•.M^j ,, ■C!oyle; : .'that■;wai^'riot'.'audible': , "'.'' • -Mr.'fCoylejflared- up,, and both assumed * what 'this Police .Courts, scribe would icall' .-a ..-.threatening .attitude:'; ' , : .-. ')'.', .;'.^'Your.'; ; Bize. won't-get: you out of -it;" blurted out Mr. : Coyle as he{'defied Mr. .Rutherfordivwhons well' over six-feet,, but Mr; Coylb. has''the advaritage.ih .avoirdupois* demanded . Mr.,. Rutherford. '"Are; members to be" allowed to speak ■ across;at ono another like "this?", , .. ."Idu -started-it,".' retorted /his 'opponent,, and then- everybody, toolr a hand'in trying ; to; rps'tore.erder,': and- there /was' more confusion than, over.' -The;bewildered,chairman ;-. was. 'bombarded, with' peremptory' cries ..to' quell, thq. disturbance, and. at. last ho man-. !' aged.to;assure the members that there' was . nothing y the. meeting, • and V Messrs. .' ■ -Coyle • and Rutherford :sat: down more or less '■i calmly. -They ; had another slight difference , later ; on;- but, compared with the first encounter it'was. a : very small affair.^: