SMALL SHOPKEEPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 28 August 1926, Page 16

SMALL SHOPKEEPERS.

(To t'Jo Editor.) Sir, A cult ing from a recent issue 01 tin- "Star" lias been posted to mo l\v ;< friend. Your report states that, having returned to Auckland to attend a special general meeting of ilie Auckland Small Shopkeeper.-." Association, Mr. A. E. Lynne (secretary) "was informed by his executive that the appointment of Mr. (!. S. Thomson, who had b<*i'ii ollniating wiih him ns secretary in the South Mhn<l. had not been confirmed, owing to Mr. Thomson being unable to conform with the rules of the as.-ociation." A-; such statement, apparently supplied to you by Mr. l,\ nne. is as iiicorrert and misleading :is a report he »nve to the "Dominion mi Wellington. I would respectfully rri|in' : .|. thai you allow mc to state my side of Hie case. It is as follows; When, at niv suggestion, to onahle mc to compare notes, Mr. l.ynne vtfited Duuedin some two months ago. I did everything possible to assist him. As a certified accountant nntl experienced organWni: secretary, I was able to give Mr. Lysine , many '"points"' t hut he considered would a's-i-t him in his work in the North. It wax ■>■! bis suggestion thnt I told him J was willing to consider the uuestiori of acting; as South I-bind -ecretary. but when, little by little. I saw that Mr. r.ynne was always keeping something hack from mc. and more particularly who,, I eventually learned that he w.i- desirous of having everything run from \urkWiml by Imn and'bis executive, ami that our Dunedin committee, who bad assisted m c » i vt-iir ago wlu-n I conducted over eighty: ;,,s,. S r~.r exemption IK-fore the Arbitrnfion Court, should have no power to conduct their own basinet here, that I registered, on .Tune -T.. l!»-i(i. the "New Zealand Shopkeepers' Protection A 55---0,,.,,!„„. Incorporated: , and when in Auckland tin- following week, lofcl tlic lolicitor. president, and other members of the \iiekland Association that I ,-or,l<l not M-ce:»i any position for them. I Mi.'cestod. however, thai there was „„ nVm why the Au-klanders should not work their F"' 1 "> N' , " - Zealand, while we worked .it hit |.oMi»n«. r.rrangint' together for a federation executive lo W formed, -o that we should not clash with eiich other. Mr. Lynne i« apparently not satisfied with sue}, an arrangement.—l ;,m - •'"■•■ i C. S. THOMSON. ithinedin. August 22. H»2O.