NAPIER ECONOMIES

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4590, 16 May 1922, Page 2

NAPIER ECONOMIES

INDIGNATION MEETING FAILS

(Per Press Aspiration.) Napier, May 14. A largely attended public meeting on Saturday', called with the object of protesting against the Borough Council's decision to dispense, with the services of the manager of the tramways, the electrical engineer, and six other employees in the_tramways and electric lighting department, had a somewhat negative result. After tho difficulty of procuring a chairman for the meeting had been overcome, an irregular discussion preceded a motion suggesting that the Council bo requested to reconsider its decision relating to the two heads of the- departments, pending an investigation by a competent electrical engineer and an accountant. An amendmentwas put that the meeting take no consideration of the salaried employees while the wage-earners are not being considered. The amendment was declared carried, and the meetin" ierminated without any further, proposals being inade.