BOROUGH LOAN PROPOSALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2412, 29 January 1909, Page 2

BOROUGH LOAN PROPOSALS.

[To the Editor.j Sir, —Your report of last Monday night's meeting on the above matter is so full' of inaccurate statements that I should I’iko to ask your readers not to attach any importance to it, ras I notice no Hess than thirteen inaccurate statements in your .report of what I am supposed to have stated at the meeting. I must also take exception to your report appearing in Wednesday’s issue that, a Councillor had stated at the 'Council, referring to s.omo figures made uso of by the Mayor at the loan proposal meeting, that not only had those figures not been sanctioned by the Finance 'Committee, but that the Council had absolutely rejected them. I certainly did not hear any Councillor make such' a remark that the committee had absolutely rejected them, and Jmd he done so I shouL'd have at once contradicted the statement, for the Finance Committee has not rejected any figures referred to. The figures referred to were those of the Town Clerk, which were placed before the committee and Council, and neither absolutely rejected them, as can be verified bv the official records of the committee and Council. Had they .done so, I venture to say the bulk of the ratepayers would attach more importance to the Town Clerk’s figures than to “the committee’s absolute rejection of them.”— I am, etc., AY. DOUGLAS LYSNAR.

[Air. Lysuar’s complaint that he has been raisreported would Obviously have carried more weight had lie quoted some of the thirteen instances in. which he claims to have been misroported. As he has been made personally aware on more than one occasion that our columns are open to him at any time for any explanation that lie mny deem it necessary to give, he has no excuse for attempting to pose as the victim of unfair reporting. tin regard to the Borough Council meeting, we have communicated with Cr. Sheridan, who gave the notice of motion referred- to, and he confirms our report of the remarks he made in tabling it. In other words, bo states that he did make the statement (attributed to him in our report. Presumably the same form of hallucination which causes Air. Lysnar to believe that lie could not have made tbe kind of speech on Alonday night which lie read in the paper next morning is responsible for bis distorted hearing of Cr. Sheridan’s remarks at the Borough Council meeting tbe following evening.—Ed. “Gisborne Times. ” 7