MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT.
HASTINGS. December 5. The Borough Council discussed a letter from the Auditor-general, who asked why Cr Wade, who is a plumber by trade, should not be disqualified from acting on the council, he having done sanitary work and Received payment totalling £267, advanced by the council to applicants for loans for house connections with tha sowers. The Mayor stated that the borough solicitor and Mr T. F. Martin (the Municipal Association’s solicitor) field that no breach of “The Municipal Corporation* Act, 1908,’’ had occurred, and that Or Wade was perfectly in order in undertaking and receiving payment for i.he work. The council resolved to request Mr Wade to continue hia duties as a councillor.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3117, 10 December 1913, Page 13
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117MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT. Otago Witness, Issue 3117, 10 December 1913, Page 13
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