THE BILL-STICKING QUESTION.

Evening Star, Issue 4192, 3 August 1876, Page 3

THE BILL-STICKING QUESTION.

To the Editor.

Sir, —My attention having been drawn to an article in yesterday's 'Guardian," which infers that the action which I have taken in reference to the advertising hoarding in the Cutting was prompted by the ' Daily Times' Company, I beg to give it an unqualified denial, as the 'Times ' Company have no more to do with me than any other printing or business firm in the City. 'I have for the last fifteen years been the general bill-poster, for the City, always willing and %ady to post anything which eame in my way; so that the statements in the ' Guardian' and * Evening News' are as untrue as they are ungentlemanly. The facts of the case are simply these: When the ' Evening News' commenced operations here they brought with them from Auckland a bill-poster for the expressed intention of doing me out of my living and making a monopoly of the business, which but for the Bupport I received from those for whom I had worked for so many years I would have lost. At t>ie time to which I refer I was posting the 'Guardian' bills, and would have been doing so now had the present proprietory not at the outset persecuted me as they did. When they have tried everything in their power to secure for themselves the bill-posting of the City, they turn round like the dog in the manger find say, " If we can't have our bills on this hoarding, we will have you out also." As a proof of what I assert, I would refer your readers to an article which the ' Evening News' published when they first commenced, to the effect that they were erecting hoardings throughout the City, and that anyone wanting bills posted could have them properly done by going to them, so that the statement about having to put up hoardings in self-defence is as talse as all the ethers. However, I am content to allow my case to remain as it ip, feeling contideDt that the members of the City Council will do me justico. It would take up too much space to go into all the particulars, and furthermore they are well known outside. I merely write tbis in justification of the 'Daily Times.'—lam, &c, John Greio. Tunedin, August 2.