LEFT BEFORE VOTING
MEMBER OF COUNCIL TOWN HALL ALLOCATION (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Explaining why he did not vote at the City Council meeting when the use of the Town Hall for holding an aid-to-Russia meeting was. refused, Mr. C. J. Garland said to-day that the time of the meeting was (changed from 12.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. and, meanwhile, he had made an urgent business appointment for 3.30 p.m. with a client who was coming to Auckland by ser-. vice car. However, he went to the meeting and expressed his view, advising the Mayor, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, lie would have to leave early. Had he remained, the Mayor’s motion would have been defeated, but he was not to know that. “I did not walk out as the vote was taken, but I left shortly alter I had spoken,” he said.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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