RILEY OR REILLY?
Sir,—It may interest some of your readers to learn that Barney Riley, the whaler, worked at Mendip Hills in 1881 as cook’s mate during shearing and afterwards helped with hay making. In my father’s diary the name was spelt Riley. My mother remembers him well as a fine, clean man. All his kitchen utensils, pannikins, tin plates and billies in those days were kept beautifully polished with sand and ashes. I do not know what year it was in which Barney was almost deprived of his section, but my father made an arrangement with G. F. Bullen by which Riley was given the right of his hut, then a tin-roofed one, for his life-time. The old man died at Island Bay. He said they were very kind to him but he longed for his home. —Yours, etc., EMILY L. RUTHERFORD. Mendip Hills, April 16, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26092, 20 April 1950, Page 2
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