Watts, William | Day 6

Distributed £54 between 18 voters. Received £5 for a committee room and supplied refreshments totalling £2 7s. 6d. Treating amounted to £8 9s. 0d. and personal expenses of £5 3s. 6d.

Witness Type: Briber, Publican, Beerhouse Keeper, Treater

Party: Liberal

Witness Testimony:

  • 6253.

    Then there are your own personal expenses and time during the canvass, 5L. 2s. 6d. ? —Yes; that is right.

  • 6254.

    Did you keep any account of what you spent in treating people at different times ? — No; I really did not ; in fact, I did not think I had spent quite so much, only I knew what I had spent by what I had got left.

  • 6255.

    You did not keep any account of what you spent when you went round ? — No.

  • 6256.

    How did you arrive at the 8L. 9s. 6d. ? — I had got 5L. 3s. 6d. left of the other money, and I took no other money.

  • 6257.

    You found at the end that you had 5L. 3s. 6d, left ? — Yes.

  • 6258.

    Then you spent it all in paying these men ? — Yes ; and I should not have spent quite so much if I thought I should not get anymore, because my time was worth 10L., and I really would not have another week like that for 20L.