AN IRATE COUNCILLOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18663, 20 March 1924, Page 8

AN IRATE COUNCILLOR.

TREATMENT OF EMPLOYEE. INCIDENT AT CAMBRIDGE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.} . CAMBRIDGE. Wednesday. The calm of the meeting of the Cambridge Borough Council was ruffled in its earlier stages' last evening over the mat-, ter of a request for a fortnight's holiday by.M*. Glendinning, bath caretaker Mr. Arnold Wilkinson spoke- -strongly against the way Mr. Glendinning had been generally treated since joining* the staff. Mr. Glendinning's wages had been cut down from £5 to £3 10s. For a married man with a family that wage was a scandal. Mr. • Wilkinson was proceeding to further elaborate the alleged shameful treatment of this employee when the Mayor called the speaker to order, requesting him to sit down if he could not keep to the question under consideration. . V

Mr. Wilkinson: I won't sit down. If I don't I suppose you will try to pot me out ? The Mayor: No, I won't, but you must withdraw what you said and sit down. - Mr. Wilkinson : I won't, and I suppose you will ask mo to leave the room ? The Mayor: If you will not obey the chair's ruling you must leave the room. Mr. Wilkinson,: Certainly. Ho immediately walked out This closed the incident, and the council agreed to give Mr. Glendinning a fortnight's leave on full pay. *