MAYOR FORFEITS SEAT
NAPIER INCIDENT
I, (By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NAPIER, This Day The Mayor, Mr. J. Vigor Brown, was to-day informed by the borough solicitors that as a firm in which he was interested in had sold cement to the council in the year prior to his election, and as payment had been made after his election, he automatically forfeited his Beat.
The money concerned was repaid to the council by the firm concerned, and this fact led the solicitors to the opinion that Mr. Brown was eligible for re-election. The amount involved was £57. ' .'
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 10
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