TOO LATE FOR MEETING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 236, 18 September 1936, Page 6

TOO LATE FOR MEETING

Letters on Supplementary Order Paper MATTERS HELD OVER The strict application of standing orders, which govern the proceedings of the meetings, was made at the meeting of the Hastings Borough Council last evening. A supplementary order paper was tabled, but because there was an objection raised the paper was not considered. • Drawing attention to the fact that the supplementary order paper consisted of correspondence which was received late and so could not be included in the ordinary order paper, the Mayor, Mr. G. A. Maddison, said that he did not consider it right that the council should be called upon to deal with matters without first having an opporUnity of fully considering them in the tame manner as other correspondence was considered. All the correspondence came in on Tuesday night and it was well-known that it should be received on the Monday prior to the council meeting.

“These matters ean only be considered if we decide to suspend the standing orders and we cannot do that if there is any objection raised,” he said. “I lodge that objection. The correspondence will now have to be dealt with in tho normal course of events.”

This stand taken by the Mayor is by no means an unusual one, having been applied in the past, but during recent years it has been the custom for a supplementary order paper to be prepared of the late correspondence and on occasions there has been a fairly formidable list of items, running to as much as three typewritten pages.