Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tuesday 12 February 1918, page 8
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS
SOUTH BRISBANE'S MAYOR.
ALDERMAN P. FORREST
ELECTED.
A special meeting of the South Bris-bane City Council was held at noon yester-cui
day to elect a mayor and committees for the year 1918. The town link (Mr. A. L i«.y) piesided
The returniu. offieci (Alderman Ii W H Long) announced the results of the recent elections
Alderman Button proposed that Aldei mail V forrest be ni o 01 fuis, w as bee onded by Aldciman Davej
A paubC then occuned, while the meeting waited foi Alderman Buike, who airivcd a icw minutes later
The mobon was then put aid Alder man Toircst was elected by be ven votes.
Taking the chair, the new Mayor ie turned thanks for his election, and pio mised to carrj out his duties to the best of his abihtj He expressed a hope that the council would consider the establish ment of special funds foi special penna nent w-orla
The major was then individually con gntulated by the aid?) men
The Mayor, again thanking them, 6aid that he hoped soon to havo a scheme
Alderman P. Forrest, the newly elected
Mayor of South Brisbane,
I
before the council foi attending to all the main thoioughfares, not onlj Mel
bourne and Stanley streets, but all the maji roads of the citj, and bunging
them undei a general thargo I
Alderman Long was appointed deputy i
mayor
Alderman Burke moved that the coun I
eil meet at 4 p m on alternate Alondaj-d |
Aldeinian Pringle moved, as un amend i ment, that the council meet at S pin He was of opinion that it would be
more come.nent
On being put, the amendment tv as lost, onlj the movct and seconder voting fot it, and the mot on was then earned
The uppo utinent of committees, &.e, was postponed until ne_t Moiulij, the mavoi and deputj major being em
powered to pat« the usual accounts l