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The Truth about Norwegian Granite. To THE EDITOR OF THE Weekly News. Sir,—Mr. Duckers is evidently so angry at his statements being criticised that he forgets to be courteous and lapses into abuse. He then gives a little more information about granite, but he carefully avoids any reply to my criticism. I asked why, if Mr. Duckers was anxious to propagate the truth, did he not mention the fact that the last Tory Government purchased great quantities of foreign granite for docks at Dover, Gibraltar, Chatham, Malta, and Portsmouth. Why did he suppress part of the truth? To that question he^ makes no reply. I then asked why Mr. Duckers stated that the purchase of 105,000 worth of granite in Nor- way was a loss of nearly £ 105,000 in wages to the Bri.tiiih.er? His reply is laughable, and shows clearly that he does not know what he is writing about He c,a yi The contract being placed in Norway means a loss in payment of wages to British work- men and British Railway Companies as fol- lows — Wages £ 45,000, railway carriage, if sent by rail from Westmoreland, £ 22,000; total ;t, 67,000. If sent from the Scotch Quarries by A boat, freight would be [13,200. This repre- sents a total cost of C59,200. The amount of wages [45,000 would have been given to our workmen in a period of three or four years." Your readers may be blessed with greater powers of comprehension that I, and may there- fore understand the point of Mr. Ducker's reply to my question. They will, of course, notice that according to Mr. Ducker's latest statement, instead of being as he previously stated a loss of nearly (105,000 in wages to the Britisher," it was merely a loss of [45,000 in wages, and £ 22,000 in railway carriage, or [13,200 if con- veyed by boat. That is a considerable modification of his previous statement; but Mr. Ducker's again only mentions part of the truth, and he carefully refrains from mentioning that the granite from Norway was paid for by British, manufacturers, which found employment for British factory hands, railway workers, and sailors. Mr. Duckers entirely ignores that side of the balance sheet. In short his argument is as ridiculous as would be the contention of a tradesman, that because his expenses and pay- ments for goods required in his business amount- ed to £ 105,000, that amount represented dead loss on his trading. Before the Registrar of the Bankruptcy Court would accept such a statement as correct he would require to know what the receipts from sales amounted to. That was, in effect, the question I put to Mr. Duckers, and he ignores it. Mr. Duckers mentions the unproductiveness of quarries near Colwyn Bay, and in that connec- tion I should be glad if he will explain why the Colwvn Bay Council buys Penmaenmawr macadam insetad of patronising home quarries? -Youxs truly, Colwyn Bay. SAMUEL THOMAS. January zoth, igio.

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The Challenge to Mr. Duckers.