Mon, 4 Apr 2011
A New Plymouth District councillor who tried to organise a boycott of a Cambodian-owned food outlet in the Taranaki town of Waitara has been censured by the council and stripped of committee responsibilities.
Sherril George handed out brochures outside Waitara's Town and Country Food in early February, urging people to boycott the store, a protest Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said was "deplorable".
The New Plymouth District Council today censured Ms George for her actions, removing her from four committees or working parties for breaching the council's code of conduct, a council spokesperson said.
Today's meeting came after the council's monitoring committee recommended she be censured and stripped of all council committee responsibilities.
Ms George, who owns a pizzeria in Waitara, and is landlord to a curry house, said she wanted people to support their "local community" and argued Town and Country Food was a franchise driving other businesses out.
A council report into her actions suggested Ms George could have breached the council's code of conduct up to five times.
Ms George had denied she had done anything wrong and claimed the allegations against her were based on "hearsay, perception, interpretation ... and lies" and the "majority are not true", the Taranaki Daily News reported.
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