NO ACTION BY CITY COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 144, 16 December 1930, Page 12

NO ACTION BY CITY COUNCIL

RESCINDING MOTION RULED ODT

■ Following the disewssion by the City Council last Monday evening and tho decision, by a margin of one vote, authorising the Eailway Department to increase the fares and to impose restrictions on the use of concession tickets, notico was given by .Councillor E. Semple of intention t» move that tho decision should bo rescinded. In tho ordinary coun*> of events this would have- had the effect of holding up any action until the rescinding motion had been disposed of, but a ruling was give* by the City Solicitor that as the council "was sitting in a semi-judi-cial capacity while it was considering the Department's application and was not concerned in its own affairs, the standing, orders did not'apply, and that therefore the rescinding motion could not be discussed. The only course open r .said the Doputy-Mayor, in announcsing the ruling, was for some interested person to lay the matter on appeal ■'bfiforo the Transport Board, either o.f the local bodies or residents of the Kutt Valley could do so, but a city councillor could not. The matter is therefore at an end as far as the City Council is concerned^ • If an appeal is to be lodged, action must, under regulations gazetted on 21st October,, 1926, be lodged with the secretary of the Transport Appeal j Board within fourteen days of the decision appealed against, i.e., by Monday next. . j