OPOTIKI CONTROVERSY
SUPREME COURT CASE MAYOR GIVES WAY (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Following prolonged dissension in the Opotiki Borough Council, application was made to the Supreme Court to-day by two councillors, Messrs. J. Anderson and S. Shalloon, for a writ to compel the Mayor, Mr. G. S. Moody, to call a meeting and put a motion of which notice was given on July 13, ‘‘That tho town clerk, C. H. Fleming, be, and is hereby dismissed from his office as town clerk/’
When the ease was called, counsel for Moody said the Mayor, believing he was acting according to the rules, had refused to put the motion, but he now agreed to do so, as he had been advised that the view lie took of the position was wrong. Counsel for the councillors, notwithstanding the Mayor’s .undertaking, asked that a writ be 'issued, but Mr. Justice Herdman said; ‘‘lf you have a promise from the defendant that he will do just what yon want him to do, what on earth is the use of continuing this application? It is only a Waste of time and money. What i' propose to do is to adjourn the matter.” The matter was adjourned for a fortnight. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18192, 13 September 1933, Page 11
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