THESE AT MINSON’S.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12687, 8 July 1919, Page 3

THESE AT MINSON’S.

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was the only thing before the council. It seemed to him that some councillors thought they knew everything. They should be sure they knew before they started talking. Ho accepted the responsibility absolutely. * He had put the report as a motion because some councillors thought their dignity had been offended in that he had not consulted them. . Captain Lockington had advised that if a decision was not com© to before five o’clock on the particular afternoon there was a possibility of the whole of. the coal he was able to work from five small mines being bought by the North Island. He had immediately taken steps to get into communication with all the councillors within reach. All that he had done was fair and above-hoard—he had always been so in the past and would he so in the future. I? , re P, ly , *?' ?■ telegram Councillor Molls rn wed;-"Remember you have my full support coal question Expect to he back Monday next ” He had consulted all the councillors he could, and then had considered he had got a majority of the council. If ke had waited to call a meeting of the council the coal would have o-one The assistance of the Mayor of Greymouth ■had come to them unasked. He might report also that they had gone into the question of the Avocamine, and Councillor Armstrong had reported that if there were two hundred men there they could dp nothing more. They had also made inquiries at Springfield. The Mayor was proceeding to comment on the housing conditions at mines when Councillor M’Kellar rose to protest, asking “if the council housed its employees ?’*

fhe Mayor: Resume your seat. Councillor M’Kellar continued on his feet, and the Mayor told him to ‘ ‘ =it down,’’ subsequently mentioning “other measures.”

y. tension eased with Councillor M'Kellar resummg his seat, Councillor Jameson interjecting something about Parliamentary methods. The Mayor: I am speaking of facts as they are, however objectionable they may be to councillors. I recognise Councillor Jameson as possessing a certain amount of business intellect. home inC1 ° r Jameson: 1 want to go

„J£ e Mayf Jameson is qmtv. at liberty to go at any time.” ino Mayor went on to refer to the bringing of thousands of tons of coal from Newcastle here at high rates of freight, and the taking back of thouL a S, tons from here—double freights. Thousands of tons were being exported, to we detriment of citizens. It would be the work of the committee oo see that no persons other than the most needy got the coal, and no individual would get more than two bam; No contract had been made for any period. They had been consulted with reference to buying firewood from the Selwyi! county, and it was for the committee to recommend or otherwise that this should he gone on with.' Captain Lockington _ bad wired" The 1 five tnldrio- I ? entlon^ c f fo/ou are all underV 5 -upply and are making everv effort to increase present output Am negotiating for output from a ’ sixth ff successful will o-ivp. von mi Sf nfT’l fifty t0 D, H per <***■ N « shortPnn+of fI T OU , r ; Ilent > 7 men offering.” Captain Lockmgton bad also telegraphed that day that lie could supply fifty tons of coal a day from a new of t!lere wa s no shortage

The report was then adopted. , report ordered. fl .^ uncillor Flesher moved; “That no further consignment of this coal be secured until a report as to the result tl counci”° nSlgnmeilt iS Presented t0

ay ,°, r questioned how soon the T C +° ll db ° obtaillG , d - Captain Lockmgton was preparing’ to send coal Si.® \T k an 4 next * 6 'ek He thought that the matter; would he all right without a resolution. CounciUor Hunter said that the council had every confidence in, its committee, which would not go on with the ousmess unless it was a paving proposition. °

Councillor Herbert said that it would be a fortnight before there was another meeting, and the people would be elamoriring for coal before then. lhe;Mayor said that the council had approved of'a consignment of 600 tons, wmch would probably last for a fortnight.

Finally the Mayor accepted , a motion that as the usual fortnightly meeting would fall on Peace night, the council should merely adjourn for a week, and that the report should then be presented. This was agreed to.