A POLL TO BE TAKEN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11486, 20 January 1903, Page 6

A POLL TO BE TAKEN.

A special meeting of the CSty Council •was held last night to confirm the ord«r . made re the taking of a poll on the question of Greater Ohrietchurch. There w*re present ihe Mayor (presiding), 'Crs. Gray, Sanroele, Taylor, Maodonald Morris. : Payling, and Smith. The Mayor explained that the 'business wan t&e confirmation of tb» (resolution passed by the Council that a poll of the citizens be held on the 22nd in«t. The resolution was confirmed and the Council adjourned. MB. CKJNimY IN REPLY. I TO THJI miTOB OF THK PfeXSS. Sir, —ThAe evening I attended at the Syd- > entam Borough Council to hear*Mr Holme's oritieatan of my flguree in connection with the Greater Chl-hrtdniirch scheme. I have not bad time to go into Mr Hutme'e figures to-aigbt, bet tope to be able to do so to-morrow. It does not need a mathematl"cwn, however, to *e& that, by Mir Hulme's marvellou* nuaupdUtion of ,table B, he obtato» the income twice oVer Iα hie final retalfc. - Thii is on a par with hu ttqant to me that I should oapitaliee Table B a> well fu Table 0, when I bad to explain tc Mm that Table B was already capital * a second ertor on this-point. When X tak» into consideration the lact that I W tiot.oaty to «to1t« 4 tystem of, .• •malgamefcloii agatet lhn» (threo weeks, mnd itr due taken ttbte» aontba, to oheck it), but al«o to jotir wta of acootote monaeviiMt diflewoily treated at each bor- - ' «mgh/I can only expect that some slight inwxmracSee «bonld Jb* found agaimit -me. Bnt m» ham of, "n*lf n baa .stood «Ve*y *f*k, end I'im pleased to say that I hare,not 4all«tt,lnto vitok an error •* bwi eye in regard to tinwpod, «ib*r* Me pufia* ibu tout moneys in tk.e t liahiHtie*, wurle the money is lytagr w tb» bazdt t»u*t jsoMVBt for ito payment. ,j*Jr,fluln» h*»>ad<iree acoeat to erery detog-of ipj flaaree,. and 4hat,r«, , «bodkl have wrSiheld jus report from me before I ooaajder, ft,br|S«cb'^f and unfair <to Uie(public. I migsht We saved him, , from 1 - jrablislring figwrw wiicb tnak* bis critidsm > ! - 'ddioqlous, and tie jwt«p»ye<« would have * . ' been betiw served. . Many of, Mr HuhfloJe other atteiationa are cot born* out By facie, «acjt, for jo? etauce, a* Sydenham's expqndafcare, etc, v but It «Jmll be in a position to explain fiwm folhr to-morrow evening.-r-I ant, etc., . W. H. QCK&Ry, FJ.A.N.Z. • $ 19th Jamary, 1903; ',