DUAL OFFICES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3804, 8 February 1927, Page 71

DUAL OFFICES.

LORD MAYOR’S DILEMMA. SYDNEY. January 20. The new and youthful Lord Mayor (Aiderman Mostyn), who created something of a sensation by telling the council employees what he expected of them, and what would happen to them if they did not give a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay. has been faced, at the very’ outset of his term of office, with a situation which has set the community smiling because of its Gilbertian humour. Before the beginning of this year the Lord Mayor was the organiser of the very trade union whose members have just been in disagreement with the Town Hall officials. As such organiser, he had to lay the complaints of his unionists before the then Lord Mayor (Aiderman Stokes). Nothing was done to remove the trouble, apparently’ with the result that, to-day 7, Aiderman Mostyn, who is still associated with the union, has seemingly 7 to prosecute, as counsel for the union, an appeal to himself as Lord Mayor. It is a pretty dilemma. As has been observed, the problem ought to afford the new Lord Mayor a rich opportunity 7 to exhibit that efficiency which, judging from the speech he made to the council’s employees on the day he was installed as Lord Mayor, he is so desirous of inculcating in others.