A COUNCILLOR'S VOTE
NO PECUNIARY INTEREST INFORMATION DISMISSED • [by TELEGRAPH —I'ttESS association] BLENHEIM, Wednesday Information brought by the Audit Department against William Carr, plumber, a member of the Blenheim Borough Council, alleging- that as a councillor he voted on a matter in which he had a pecuniary interest—a scheme for financing householders' connections to tho sewerage system—was dismissed by Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M., in a reserved judgment delivered in the Magistrate's Court to-day. The magistrate said the question turned upon the meaning of tho words "pecuniary interest" in section 57 of the Municipal Corporations Act, >and the matter had not been raised previously for judicial interpretation. Mr. "Maunsell held that tho words related to a vested; interest and did not extend to a mere prospective interest or contingent., interest. He commented that although'defoiidant might in future secure work " under the scheme, there was no evidence that that was certain. Ho considered Carr was indiscreet in voting on the matter as it affected him .with bias, but, the .matter did not go beyond that.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21744, 8 March 1934, Page 10
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174A COUNCILLOR'S VOTE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21744, 8 March 1934, Page 10
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