MAYOR & COUNCILLOR
“Don’t Care What You Think” MILD DISAGREEMENT “Well, I don’t care what you think,” said the Mayor, Mr. G. A. Troup, ooneluding a small “tiff” with Councillor C. H. Chapman, at last evening’s meeting of the City Council. Mr. Chapman bad alleged that something “next door to discourtesy” had been the reply of the Mayor to a request by the Free Ambulance Association that the council should receive a deputation from it that evening. The Mayor, in making an explanation following Mr. Chapman’s opening question, said that when the request had been made to him, he had replied that there wias a motion on the council’s books to the effect that no deputations would be received at an ordinary meeting of the council "That I must uphold,” said the Mayor. “If the council wants it rescinded, notice of motion will have to be given, and I will give effect to it.” Councillor Chapman: Do I understand you were so discourteous as to refuse a deputation? The Mayor: There is no discourtesy about it. . ’ , . Mr. Chapman: Well It a next door to it- The Mayor: It is a resolution of the council that deputations will be received by the committees. When the Mayor carries out the council’s instructions there is no discourtesy in it.. Mr. Chapman: Well I think it was discourtesy. . . . The Mayor: Well I don’t eare what you think.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 149, 20 March 1931, Page 8
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