SCENE AT A BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETING.
[by telegraph.—press association.] Oamaru, Wednesday. The lengthy deadlock in the Borough Council, culminated to-night in a vote of censure on the Mayor for stating that the Council had opposed him in his efforts to obtain a supply of clean water for the town. The Mayor at the beginning of the meeting rulod that the motion was out of order, as it was signed by a councillor who was nob a councillor at the time. The Mayor and his supporters then left the room, bub ib was immediately afterwards found that tho councillors held office till to-morrow night. A chairman was then appointed, and a vote of censure and want of confidence in tho Mayor was carried unanimously by seven councillors.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9305, 14 September 1893, Page 5
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