‘PURE’ COUNCIL MOVE
MOTION IMPRACTICABLE. LONDON, November 10. Heated discussions took place in Southend Council Chamber to-night when Councillor Macintosh moved that no person who is a father, son or partner of a council-member, should hold any office in the gift of the council. The councillor said his object was to keep the council pure, but Aiderman Dowsett, describing it as unEnglish, said it was an attack on the son of a councillor who was earning £1 a week. Aiderman Bockett said the moth.a did not go far enough to remove temptation. It was possible under the terms of the motion for any member of the council to use his or her influence for the purpose of obtaining the employmeiit of his daughter, sister, brother, wife’s brother, daughter’s husband, sister’s son, and brother's sou, even his grandmother. “In fact,” he continued, “if we want to be absolutely pure and free from any suspicion, or temptation. Councillor Macintosh's motion should embrace the table of kindred and affinity.”
Eventually, after practically every member of the council had protested, and had said that the council was pure, only Councillor Macintosh voted for the motion.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 December 1934, Page 2
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