COUNTY CHAIRMAN RESIGNS
TECHNICAL BREACH OF ACT. SMALL PURCHASE' INVALID. f_BT TELEGRAPH.OWN COKRESPONDENT.] '■■ /"" INGLE-WOOD. Wednesday. Members of the Inglewood County, Council received a great surprise at a meeting when a letter was read from the chairman, Mr. A. Corkill, resigning his . position on the council owing to a technical breach of the law during the time ha was also a director of the Farmers' Co-operative Association. The letter forwarding his resignation explained that the Auditor-General advised that, as goods to the value of £16 4s 6d (being £6 43 6d in excess of the maximum allowed by the Counties Act) \ were purchased on behalf of the council from the Farmers' Co-operative Association, while Mr. v Corkill was director of the company, his seat on the council became vacant. In the circumstances he wished' to resign his offices of chairman and councillor. He added that the Counties Act had since been amended, so that any similar occurrence in future would not be a breach of the law.
The resignation was accepted with extreme regret. ' Mr. Corkill has been chairman of the Inglewood County Council since its : inception, about three years ago, and was very largely responsible for the formation of the county. r
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18389, 3 May 1923, Page 8
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