IN COMMITTEE
It is wholly regrettable that the City Council should continue the practice of discussing affairs in committee when those affairs are of great public interest. Certain .business must be dealt with privately.. It would, for example, be wholly unwise to consider tenders in open meeting or to disclose prematurely plans for acquiring land. But there can be no such reason for secrecy applying to the East and West access proposals. Even if. land is to be acquired, the suggested routes are ao well .known that nothing is to be gained by withholding information. On the other hand, the mere fact of committee iproceedings engenders public suspicion. The impression is given that the council is playing a game of chess with the ratepayers and seeking to outwit them. Whatever may be the merits of the council's proposals for financing track-laying, those merits are not enhanced by secrecy. It would be much better for the whole question to be fully threshed out in open meeting.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 8
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165IN COMMITTEE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 8
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