ANOTHER LOCAL BODY GONE WRONG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9583, 7 August 1894, Page 4

ANOTHER LOCAL BODY GONE WRONG.

We are grieved to remark that the Charitable Aid Board is in the position of having stopped the, transaction of business and taken to quarrelling. At yesterday's meeting there was a considerable amount of business to be gone through, but several members thought it their duty to leave the room because they could not have their own way, although apparently they took up their abode for a time in the corridor. These members were successful in . obtaining the expunging of the minutes of the last meeting of the Board, which was convened by a requisition to the chairman, and at which considerable discussion took place. No doubt ' they have their own reasons for this, whatever they may be. The whole affair arises out of the action of the committee appointed to examine into the condition of the institutions in charge of the Board. The members of the committee took evidence and produced a report which reflected severely upon individuals. It is alleged that they acted Knost irregularly and unfairly in the taking of evidence. When the evidence was asked for, the members of the committee declined to lay it upon the table, expecting apparently that the whole Board would adopt the report and act upon it, on their' mere word. The other members decline to be put in such an absurd and unsafe position. Now, a motion is brought forward to compel the chairman to resign. But the law provides that the chairman shall be elected at the, annual meeting,' and- shall hold office for the year. If the sub-committee have evidence supporting the conclusions they came to in the report they should at once produce it, for they are most assuredly wrong in withholding it. If they have not taken | the evidence in such a manner that it can be produced, then they had better ask leave to withdraw their report. If the Board think fit, the investigation can then be commenced de novo.