TIMARU MAYORALTY
(P.A.) TIMARU. This Day. The position of the Mayoralty v of Timaru has been further complicated by an opinion of the borough solicitors, who state that the Mayor has already lost his seat. In "view of this opinion, and a confidential opinion forwarded to the council recently-by the Municipal Association another local body, the Timaru Borough Council tonight decided to ask the member of Parliament for Timaru to secure the opinion of the Crown Law Office on the position The Mayor, Major Tweedy, who is Red Cross Commissioner overseas, was granted six months' leave of absence, and on the expiry of that leave the council declined to grant an extension.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 39, 14 August 1942, Page 3
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112TIMARU MAYORALTY Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 39, 14 August 1942, Page 3
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