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MAYOR THE CHIEF CITIZEN. (Per Prees Association). WELLINGTON, May 30. Mr J. P. Luke, M.P., Mayor of Wellington, has obtained a legal opinion relative to the positions of Prime Minister and Mayor in respect of the meeting of citizens, arising out of the depuite with Sir James Allen in connection with the welcome at Wellington to General Sir Andrew Russell. The opinion states, inter alia, "By long established custom, the Mayor is the chief citizen, and in all social matters in which the citizens are concerned as a community, it is the Mayor who is the head. - The Prime Minister does not represent the Dominion, unless specially appointed by the King to do so, and to the Governor-General alone should the Mayor give way in his own city. If the Prime Minister promotes a function in a city the only place he can act. as host is in his own house (official or private). If the Governor wished to call a ireeting' of the citizens oi : a particular city, he would ask the Mayor to call the meeting, and the 31a vor would take the chair."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 1682, 31 May 1919, Page 5
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