MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT.
To the Editor of the Star. Sir, — Would you kindly allow space for the following clause of the Municipal Corporations Act of 1876. I have so frequently noticed councillors breaking the law, that I should like to give them warning. It is clause 75 — " No councillor shall vote upon or take any fart in the. discussion of any matter before the council in which he has directly or indirectly, by himself or his partners, any interest ; and any councillor who knowingly offends against this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds for every such offence." A wise law, it appears to me, and should prevent public men from " working the oracle " in their own interests — to wit, chimneys and leases. — I am, &c, Burgess.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume V, Issue 766, 5 April 1884, Page 3
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131MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume V, Issue 766, 5 April 1884, Page 3
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