MR SIGLEY'S REPLY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 568, 12 November 1902, Page 3

MR SIGLEY'S REPLY.

(To the Editor of the Times.)

Sir,—ln reply to Mr Crawford's letter in tho Times issue of Saturday, I • would like to point out that the list of names given of residents in Clutha (who signed a round-robin at the request of a canvasser, Mr Thomson) is \ery ancient, being some three years old, hence oi tittle value in the lii;iu of to-day. The letters and the statement by the Preshytery I submitted are recent, and are the deliberate opinions of residents now living on the spot, and hence are of greater vgiue than thirty-one signatures to a round, robin obtained three years ago. I would call atienlion to Air Crawford’s closing assertion (which is incorrect, and therefore misleading) that the thirty-one names given “constitutes nearly all the business people of the town of Balclutlia,” as at the very time the round robin was signed by the thirty-one individuals, the business persons and tradesmen in Balclut'ia numbered one hundred and three a somewhat remarkable statement on the part of Mr Crawford. The following is a list-, care-’illy prepared, of the then traders in tli -j town

—And I leave it to my readers to judge of the value of Mr Crawford’s as well as that of tiic “ thirty-one residents.”—l am, etc., J, K. SIC LEY.

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1 Mayor and Merchant 1 1 Merchant not Mayor 1 10 Storekeepers 1 0 Financial Agents 1 1 Auctioneer Cl 52 Bakers 0 6 Blacksmiths 2 5 Boardinghouse Keepers ... 0 4 Bootmakers 1 1 Bricklayer 0 5 Butchers 2 7 Carpenters 4 3 Carters 1 1 Chemist J 1 Coach Builder 1 B Coal Merchants 2 il Dealers 0 3 Dressmakers 0 1 Fruiterer 1 4 Gardeners 0 1 Hairdresser 0 1 Implement Maker 0 3 Livery Stable Keepers ... 1 1 Miller 1 1 Mill-owner 1 2 Newspaper Proprietors ... 0 1 Newspaper Runner 1 4 Painters 1 1 Photographer 0 2 Saddlers t 1 Sailmakcr 1 4 Tailors 2 1 Timber Merchant 0 1 Tinsmith 0 1 Tobacconist 1 2 Watchmakers 0 2 Wheelwrights 1 6 Sundries 103 1 131