MUNICIPAL JOY TRIPS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 50, 28 February 1930, Page 10

MUNICIPAL JOY TRIPS

COUNCILLOR CHAPMAN'S "PRESUMPTION"

Councillor K. Semple, M.P., is known to the public as a man who speaks with energy and emphasis, who smites the table frequently to hammer home a point, but quite often he treads gently, and yet leaves an impression. Last evening the Labour members of. the City Council expressed a grievance: not for years past had one of them been invited to represent the council at one of many conferences.

Councillor C. H. Chapman, M.P., was most candid upon the point.

Councillor Semple put him iv his place. "I am amazed at Councillor Chapman'a presumption," he said. "The very idea of his suggesting that any councillor who is of our persuasion should dare to think that he is a competent porson to stand alongside tho intellectual giants which he would be bound to meet at these gatherings!"

Councillor R. A. Wright, M.P., said that he did not think there was much Topm for complaint.' It was a very long time since he' had boeu asked to enjoy himself at a conference. As a matter of fact, they were very good holiday trips, paid for by the citizens, and the easy way out, to his mind, was to have a whole lot more of them. Why not a dustman's conference, for instance, and a few move so that the onerous duties of attending-them'could go right round" the table?