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SUBURBAN NEWS.
STREET MEETINGS AT
OAKLEIGH. .
Shopkeepers Complain to
Council.
Oakteigh shopkeepers carrying on busi
ness in Poitman-stvcct complained to the
local council nt its meeting on Monday
night that traffic in the street was ob
structed and business diverted .or seriously
hindered through the laxity ol tnc
authorities in permitting the holding of
public meetings in that thoroughfare on
Friday nights.
The town clerk (Mr. J. A. Price) re
ported that he had conferred with the
police regarding street meetings, and had
been informed that all concerned in those
meetings — both those holding them and
those attending them — were committing a
breach cf the Police Offeucea Act. They
were also infringing a council by-law.
The Mayor (Cr. Voumard) said he was
opposed to the prohibition of speaking in
streets. The council should define some,
area where street meetings could be con-
fiimtml tvJHmnfc interference to shop-
keepers. ' .,1.
The town clerk said the council had
no authority to discriminate in that wuy.
The onus was on speakers to choose sites
where such assemblages would uot occasion
obstruction to tvaffic or to business. In
whatever street such meetings were heia
action could be taken by the police, but
I doubtless they - would exercise discre-
' tion. , .
Cr. Cove moved that the police be re
quested to take such action as would en
sure that the council's by-law. was ob
served in future.
The motion was agreed to.
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