UNRULY MEETING
COUNCILLOR’S MOB RULE,
POLICE TO THE RESCUE.
(“Sydney Sun” Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)
(Recd. 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 22
Extraordinary scenes were witnessed at a meeting of the Greenwich Borough Council, where the Labourites are in a minority of one against the Municipal Reformers.
Dr. Morgan, a Labourite, accused Mr. Thorne, the Mayor, of counting votes inaccurately and said: “I am going to use deliberately provocative language to force you to sue me. You swine of a chairman. If your photograph were hung up I would smash the glass.”
When Reformers moved the adjournment, Morgan threw an ink bottle on the floor, bespattering the clerks.
Another councillor smashed the water carafe. •
The public invaded the chamber and supported Morgan, till the police intervened, when the meeting was disbanded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 January 1926, Page 5
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