Cr Maurice Rodway must be feeling very disenchanted today, following the treatement he was meted yesterday by many of his fellow councillors.
Highest polling of all candidates and seemingly popular with his peers, Cr Rodway had put his hat into the ring for the position of Deputy Chairman of the council, but was denied that by the same block of voters that installed Cr Timms into the chairman's chair. Instead, Cr Nicol Horrell was swiftly selected, seemingly by arrangement and given the role. Cr Rodway addressed his fellow councillors before the vote, emphasising the desirability of having a representative from urban Southland to balance the rural chair and pointed out that his very strong support from the people of Invercargill was a real indication that his winning the position would meet with favour from the public.
I believe he was right in thinking that.
