CORRESPONDENCE.
THE BOROUGH TURNCOCK. ,"•,'. !.V . (To the Editor.) ~.'': ' Sir,—Having bden a loiter signed " Moanataiari" appear in one of your late issues accusing the Boroiigh Turncook of receiving money falsely from the Borough, and also one signed" E« tbuking'ibe Major tor his cleverness' in detecting this fraud, I would ask you as a favor to publish Iho following Btatoinentafrom ono who knows the facts of the case. (1) The Borough Turncook explainod to the Council that ho bad authority from tho late Town Clerk to allow the boy to go to school after the l> v had done so much work in tho morning and also at, night and; on Saturdays, in cleaning tlie-flutne. -(2)That : tiie Mayor has withheld this, information and put words ofjliie own Id their etoad (also thai Iho Mayor know of tho boy being bo om» p.loyoi|: 80D10. fpiir orilvo . wombs ego ol wbfoii. tltiio ho told: the■ Tu'mooqk lo uW him Iti oponlof! and !il)titliti[( tho valvoa oo
Saturday and Sunday nigbls. Myself and ninny otlier.s.bave soen the ..boy.working in nil woaibcre, sometimes having' the' uesistanou of liUtwo brothore, : aod 1 ihink it iH clue to .the Turncoob thai those particulars uli'jiild bo kauwn.—l am, etc, Thos. Manninq.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 6603, 7 May 1890, Page 2
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202CORRESPONDENCE. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 6603, 7 May 1890, Page 2
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