INTERESTED PARTY
COUNCILLOR DISQUALIFIED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. In the. Police Court, Mr. H. W.
Bundle, S.M., found against Edgar Arnold Fox, who was proceeded against by the Audit Department on three informations of having acted as councillor on the- Oamaru Borough Council when disqualified from doing so. The defendant, a member of Gay's Oamaru fcstono Company, had offered to supply stone to tho Oamaru Beautifying Society to erect a wall in Sovern street, a work which was taken over by the Borough Council, and ultimately a contract was let to one Doehcrty, who used Gay's stone. The Magistrate hold that while it was not established that Docherfcy acted as a dummy for Fox, the latter was interested in the Eontract entered into by tho borough, and therefore disqualified. He had acted as a councillor later, taking part in a discussion on Docherty's contract^ and would bo fined £15 with costs. Security was fixed for appeal.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1930, Page 11
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