DISSENSION IN BOROUGH COUNCIL
MAYOR REFUSES TO PUT MOTION COURT ACTION FOLLOWS [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 13. Following a prolonged dissension in the Opotiki Borough Council application was made in the Supreme Court to-day by two councillors, Messsr J. Anderson and S. Shalfoon, for a writ to compel the mayor, Mr G. S. Moody, to call a meeting and put a motion of which notice was given on July 13— “ That the town clerk, Mr C. H. Fleming, be and is hereby dismissed from his office as town clerk.” When the case was called counsel for Mr Moody said the mayor, believing he was acting according to the rules, had refused to put the motion, but he now agreed to do so, as he had been advised that the view he took of the position was wrong, Counsel for the councillors, notwithstanding the mayor’s undertaking, asked that a writ be issued, but Mr Justice Herdman said: “If you have a promise from the defendant that he will do just what you want him' to do what on earth is the use of continuing this application? - It is only a waste of time and money. What I propose to do is to adjourn the matter.”
The matter was-adjourned for a fortnight. .
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Evening Star, Issue 21515, 13 September 1933, Page 8
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