MAYOR RESIGNS
REQUEST OF AUDITOR-GENERAL.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
TIMARU, 15th November. Arising out of the fact that Mr. G. J. Wallace, Mayor of Timaru, did engineoring work for the borough council nine months before ho joined the council, the account for which. (£l9) was paid after he became Mayor and had sold his business, the Auditor-General has written suggesting that he shnv1'1 refrain from exercising the function of Mayor or councillor till ho lias iaiv.ii re-olccted, in which case no further action on the' part of the Audit Department would be necessary. A formal resignation, it was stated, would facilitate adjustment of the position. At a special mooting ,of tho Borough Council to-night, Mr. Wallace resigned and the council adjourned till next Thursday night for tho purpose of electing a Mayor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 119, 16 November 1926, Page 6
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131MAYOR RESIGNS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 119, 16 November 1926, Page 6
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