EXTRAORDINARY SCENES
AT COUNCIL MEETING. LABOUR V. REFORMERS. POLICE HAVE TO INTERVENE. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received Jan. 23, 10545 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 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. Doctor Morgan, a Labour member, 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, 1 would smash the glass.” When the Reformers moved the adjournment, Dr. Morgan threw an ink bottle on the floor, bespattering the clerks. Another councillor smashed a water caratfe. The public invaded the chamber ami supported Dr. Morgan till the police intervened, when the meeting was disbanded.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 5
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