THE WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL IN A MUDDLE.
■Jbt telegraph —pftEss Association.] Wellington, Monday. An extraordinary complication has arisen here in the City Council. On Friday evening Councillor Maginnity at the end of the meeiing handed in his resignation. The City Solicitor has advised that there are no statutory provisions enabling a councillor to resign, and that to have effect the resignation must be formally accepted by the. Council, A special meeting to accept this resignation was called td-day, but this forenoon Councillor Marjinnity, in writing, withdrew his resignation. The Council held a, meeting in the afternoon,, when both resignation and withdrawal were placed, before it. By a majority of one the Council accepted the resignation, and ordered a new election for Thorndon ward, quite ignoring the withdrawal. It now turns out that to-day's meeting of the Council is in itself illegal, through the proper notice, not having been given.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6813, 18 September 1883, Page 5
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