' Butting In ' Charge Made Against M. P.
KAWAKAWA, Thu. (Sp.) impertinent for an M.P. to interfere in an electorate that did not concern him.
The Transport Department should allow the council to control its own affairs.
These remarks were made by the chah-man of the Bay of Islands County Council (Cr H. T. Atkinson) at yesterday’s regular October meeting of the council, when letters were received from Mr A. J. Murdoch, M.P. for Marsden, and the Commissioner of Transport, asking for reconsideration of a decision made by the counciL This decision was a refusal to allow a Kawakawa district truck operator to cart sawn timber over a restricted road during the winter. “We know our conditions here much better than does the Commissioner," said Cr Atkinson.
“In any case, his facts are not quite right.” The matter was one which did no* come within Mr Murdoch’s electorate, he said. s '
He charged the member with butting in. There was no need for either Mr Murdoch or the Commissioner to worry about the position now, however, as the winter restrictions were over.
“But we will reply that we would not have been prepared to reopen the matter during the winter months,” he concluded.
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Northern Advocate, 13 October 1949, Page 5
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