taken from Evening Post, 29 June 1888

RATEPAYERS MEETING at the THEATRE ROYAL, this evening at 8 o'clock
... As the Mayor has seen fit to publish only three of the names of the ratepayers signing the requisition requesting him to convene the above meeting, I think it necessary that the public should have before them the complete list of those who desire a full and public explanation from the Mayor of the reasons which induced the promotion of such a Bill as the Wellington Corporation Leasehold, Drainage, and Financial Bill. I need therefore make no apology for supplying his omission - T. Kennedy MacDONALD

Signatories to Requisition -
? James BARRY (Barry and McDowall)
- Builders and Contractors, Pipitea Street, Wellington
? Thomas BEADNALL
- father of Reginald Walter Beadnall, Decorators, Oil and Colour Merchants
? Henry BLUNDELL
? Joseph BURNE
? J. M. CLELAND
? Paul COFFEY, J.P.
- Shipwright of London married Elizabeth Newman 1865 at Spring Grove, Waimea
? F. COHEN
? George DENTON
? J. DRANSFIELD
? John DUTHIE
? Henry FIELDER
? William FINLAY
? Henry FLOCKTON (1835-1910)
- founder of the Fire Brigades' Association of Great Britain, Proprietor of the VARIETY STORES in Manners Street
? Francis H. FRASER
? Robert GARDNER
? Francis F. GRADY
? Charles HILL
? Edwin J. HILL
? F. HOLM (Captain)
? E. GREENWOOD
? C. S. HOGG (Rev)
? William HUME
? W. F. KENNEDY
? J. KOHN
? Robert MARTIN
? Thomas Kennedy MacDONALD
- Auctioneers, Land, Estate, and General Agents, Sharebrokers, and Commission Agents, Exchange Auction Rooms, Lambton Quay, Wellington had a seat in the Legislative Council
? Alexander MacDOUGALL
- appointed commercial manager of the State Collieries in 1904
? John MacKENZIE
? Alex McDONALD
? James McDOWELL
? William MILLER
? William MITCHELL
? Richard MOODY
? W. M. MUIR
- his brother James settled in Masterton & started the first coach factory in 1870
? H. PILCHER
? Isaac PLIMMER
- early settler of Wellington, arriving in 'Gertrude' 1841. He was the licensee of the ALbert and the Varretts Hotels. He died at his residence, Woolcombe street 1908
? Nicholas REID
? James RUSSELL
? A. SCOULLAR
? Charles Perrin SKERRETT
- (Sir) 5th Chief Justice of New Zealand (1863-1929)
? J. & R. SLOAN
- Tailors and Woollen-Drapers of Lambton Quay
? D. T. STUART
- from London. President of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Auditor of the Titanic Steel & Iron Company, Director/Chairman of the Victoria Bowling Club
? J. E. TEPPER
- lived in Owen Street, Newtown, Wellington. Moved to Sydney in 1890
? W. H. WEST (Rev)
? William WHITTEM
? James WILSON


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Thomas Kennedy MacDonald