MUNICIPAL CRISIS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1160, 30 October 1917, Page 5

MUNICIPAL CRISIS.

COUNCIL AT LOGGERHEADS. DISAPPROVAL OF MAYOR. Press Association. MARTON, October 30. Since Mr P. C. Wilson's election as Mayor, municipal affairs in Marton have been stagnant. Stormy meetings occur almost every time the council meets, and no business is transacted. At last night's meeting a climax was reached in affairs when a previous resolution appointing certain councillors to sub-com-mittees was rescinded, and a resolution unanimously carried appointing all the councillors, excepting the Mayor, as a committee of the council, and delegating all the powers and duties to them. This practically means that the council has power to ignore the Mayor in future. The Mayor refused to accept the motion of censure against himself for writing an unauthorised letter to the Wa'nganui "Chronicle" threatening to exclude their representative from the municipal buildings. A resolution was carried that the council dissociate itself from the Mayor's letter to the '' Chronicle.''