COUNTY COUNCIL EXPENSES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16842, 28 April 1915, Page 11

COUNTY COUNCIL EXPENSES.

[Pee Press Association.] WANGANUI, April 27. Mr Kerr, S.M., gave his reserved decision to-day in the case lies v. ex-members of the Wanganui County Council, a clahn to recover £9 6s of unauthorised expenditure. The Magistrate decided that by sending a delegate to tho conference, tho council was not acting in execution of any requirements nor doing anything which it" was .empowered to do, and gave judgment for £4 for the Department. In regard to travelling expenses of tho chairman to the counties . conference, the Magistrate found that the expenditure was' justified, and regarded the sum; five guineas, as an authorised expenditure. - .