| Mr Poolman, who was widowed in 1988, started work as a tallyman selling clothes door-to-door, but he decided to start his own business. |
| The task of the tallyman is to get a tally of the votes for each candidate from each polling station. |
| And as returning officers have learnt over the years, only a fool would stand up to announce an official result without checking first with the tallyman. |
| The tallyman concerned asked that a new camp be built in the southern part of his trapline. |
| Nevertheless, the tallyman remains in many ways a figure who stands for the traditional way of life and the knowledge associated with it. |
| By 1866 Helen Bruce had been working in male dress since she was 17, as an errand boy, shop lad, ship's stoker, tallyman at a mine, and clerk. |
