from the Port Hope Times  July 1908 No Purchases to be Made in Port Hope Dominion Government Commands that no Material or Supplies For Repair of Gull Light House Shall be Purchased in Port Hope Aylesworth's Revenge Again Everything Being Procured in Cobourg - Liberals Boil With Indignation - Formerly Purchased Here The extensive repairs and enlargements now being made to the Gull light house has given the Laurier government another opportunity to display its spite toward Port Hope. Of this opportunity it has promptly taken advantage. In former years when repairs have been made to the lighthouse, iron and other material necessary for the work and supplies for the men engaged, have been purchased in Port Hope. This year the government has issued an order that no purchases of any kind are to be made in Port Hope. This order is being strictly obeyed, and all lumber, iron, groceries and other supplies are being purchased in Cobourg. Mr McMahon's gasoline launch is engaged to transport the material from Cobourg to the lighthouse. No suitable vessel for the purpose could be procured in Cobourg. A gang of men in charge of Mr P J Brewel of Ottawa is engaged in the work. The lighthouse is being practically rebuilt and will be repainted. Additional accommodation for the lighthouse keeper is also being provided. In future, on account of the ferry, the light will burn all winter as well as during the summer. The men engaged at the work are boarding at Mr McCullough's farm. The petty spite displayed by the government toward Port Hope has caused intense disgust to any local Liberals who know about it. "What do you think of the Government now?" said a Times reporter to one of the leading Liberals of Port Hope. "I know what you mean" he replied. About the lighthouse? "Well that certainly is the limit. I admit that I am thoroughly disgusted. To think that the men I have been voting for all these years can be so utterly small as to be guilty of such a contemptible display of malice because Mr Aylesworth was defeated certainly opens my eyes. I am out of politics now and for ever. This finishes me." "No, don't mention my name, I am not in politics now," he concluded.