DEPRIVED OF HIS SEAT
RIVER BOARD, MEMBER
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) '■■:■ , BLENHEIM, 22nd Augusl
An extraordinary vacancy has been caused on the Wairau Rjver Board,- Mr. R. Ham, one of the Omaka subdivision members, having been deprived of his seat on technical legal grounds.
Mr. Ham held, a lease of certain _ of the board's reserves area along the Wairau in the vicinity of Conder's Bend, and he was not legally entitled to retain his seat on the board. Mr. Ham, it may be mentioned, has held the lease in question for some years, but neither he nor the board had any suspicion tht he was not on solid legal ground in holding "office. The position appears to be purely technical. It seemß that in the Counties' Act, Municipal Corporations Act, and River Boards Act, it is laid down that no member who holds a' contract with a local body may become a member on that body, I but in. the first two named Statutes leases are specifically exempted from definition of contract. This, however, is not so in the case of the River Boards Act, which does not particularise in connection with leases and there is therefore no option but to regard a lease as a contract.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1927, Page 10
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206DEPRIVED OF HIS SEAT Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1927, Page 10
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