CR THACKER’S MOVE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 14

CR THACKER’S MOVE.

DISMISSAL OF INSPECTORS. ALLEGED TO BE INEFFICIENT. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 9. Wholesale resignations from the City Council's staff of inspectors will be the rule after Monday night's meeting if Cr Thacker (Deputy-Mayor) has his way. He gave warning at a meeting of the Traffic Committee of the council this afternoon of his intentions. He had been criticising the parking of motor cars in Hereford street before he advised the committee of his decision. “ I intend to move at the council meeting on Monday night that all the inspectors in the Traffic and Sanitary Departments be asked to hand in their resignations, and bo notified that they can apply for {heir positions again,” he said. “ Our inspectors are quite ineffective at present.” Mr H. MTntosh (chief city traffic inspector) : Is that for the press? It would be’better if you put in a requisition for six additional inspectors. Cr Thacker said the only time the traffic inspectors were to be seen .was when there were sports on or something being held at Monica Park. The only other places where he saw them was occasionally at the traffic dom&. Cr E. H. Andrews shared Mr M‘lntosh’e curiosity as to whether the discussion was intended to be reported, Cr Thacker: Oh, yes, this is for publication. Or Andrews: Are you going to give notice of motion? Cr Thacker: No, I am going to try to get it through in the general business. Mr C. Hayward said he was a motorist, and wherever he went in the city he saw the inspectors.