CONTROL OF CITY RESERVES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1431, 4 May 1912, Page 4

CONTROL OF CITY RESERVES.

A PUBLIC INQUIRY? Soma eomiEont has boon mado upon tha fact that tho committee sot up by th« City Council to conduct an inquiry into tho genera! conduct control of tho city reserves held its preliminary meeting in private. Councillor G. Frost (chairman of tha City Reserves Committee) is one of tho persons interested who considers that the inquiry should bo conducted in tho onen. Questioned on tho subject last evening, lie stated that he would greatly prefer that tho whole matter should bo heard in. public, with press _ reporters present. Charges, he remarked, had been made publicly against an officer t.f tho council, and had been reported in the . papers. Deing nn officer of tho council, tho person charged was not in a position to writo to tho papers in reference to what was said at" tho meeting of tho council. Tn fairness, Councillor Frost contended, lha officer should ho given an opportunity of publicly defending himself against "tho charges which had been laid against him. Ho had been publicly charged, and should bo given nn opportunity of defending himself publicly. Finally, Councillor Frost stated tliftfc when tho' committee, next met ho would move to have tho inquiry conducted iu public. ■