"STRONGLY WORDED"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 127, 26 November 1923, Page 8

"STRONGLY WORDED"

RUFFLED FEELINGS AT EASTBOUHNE.

A strongly-worded letter was read at Friday's meeting of the Eastbourne Borough Council. . The. •writer, Councillor H. M.- Jon?s, himself: a : member' of the council, complained that the Finance Committee was largely a "close corporation," and.-,.tlio.;GßnetaLi.Eurpflises Conk. .mittee,:o.f'»^qh;iKe*iiftiliS^p;annember;was not;:feco£viii{f'^fair?.'-treatment' in regard to the financing of borough improvements that ■ it had advised being carried out. ,'jHe suggested .that .v: member* of. the General Purposes Committee, preferably the chairman, should, have'a seat on the Finance Committee with the object of placing the 'committee's suggestions more satisfactorily before those councillors who controlled the borough's finances. Recently, declared Councillor Jones in the letter, his committee had been severely hampered owing to the hostile attitude of the Finance Committee. The Mayor: "I do hoi know what prompted the letter, but I think that a more detailed explanation should have been included I think Councillor Jones should withdraw the letter. I cannot allow any councillor to make such allegations without any justice for so doing." Councillor Shortt considered the letter a reflection on the Finance Committee, inferring that it had not carried out its dutiee in the proper manner. Councillor Jones asked to make ah explanation, but the Mayor refused to allow him to do so on the ground that such explanation should have been contained in the letter. : ■ <■

A resolution was put forward that the letter be received, but an amendment that the letter' bo not received was carried, Councillors Shortt, Marquis, Hartridge, Levy, and the Mayor voting for it, and Councillors Jones, Daw'son, and Bowden against.