RANGITAIKI FARMERS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10829, 30 March 1932, Page 3

RANGITAIKI FARMERS

Transport of Butter.

pVTRON-H’K FOR HAI LA\ AY

' two hundred shareholders Baneitaiki Plains Dairy Como£ 1 .. rcp ondcd to the notice given P anJ -viraorilinarv general meeting °{ Se ''company to h<- held in the Show Building on Tuesday of « 11 a- in accordance with a relaSt signed hy Mr G. Melville ’other'' shareholders (says the .1. «. Eccles. i the notice calling the meeting Te . vh -gated that the business was to * mer'the Company’s .!• resent posi<foßSt Urn matter of the existing U °” rt with the Norlhern Steam•Co Ltd., for the carriage of S . b ' P ro'tip3uVs‘produce io Auckland: 1 a in view of the possible early elos- ’ an f rf the Hast Coasi Railway at iD£f ', ..,, rv ing this district, to coufjler' and, if deemed expedient, to carry ins the following proposed rcso--IU-Thal” in the opinion of this meet- . of the Ranaitaiki Plains Dairy c„ Ltd., the time has arrived for a of its existing contract with ?Z U ' Northern Steamship Co.. Ltd., ;Jat inasmuch as the interests of the “ iior« and the farmers generally Ttllc Rangitaiki Plains will be best ° ' (1 by the retention of the East FoMt Railway, the closing of which Sm be a serious disaster, it be an instruction to .the Directors to open negotiations with the Tsortliern "teamin' Company for the cancellation of Us existing contract, with a view to the completion ot a definite arrangement with the Railway Denirtaient for the carnage of the comnani’s produce; and that the Dirocfors report at an early date to an extraordinary general meeting to he convened for the purpose.’ On opening the business to discusctnr the Chairman of Directors, Mr \v "McCracken, said he thoagnt it would he inadvisable to allow tr.e rro&edings to he open to the Press, and on his motion it was resoKCu that the meeting go into committee. At the conclusion of the meelL.g the Chairman stated to a Press representative that a proposal to L»e effect th?-', i ll the event ot the runways Board giving an assurance that the line would not he closed if the Companv's produce was transported bv lailway, the directors he authonsed to enter into negotiations v.'un die Northern Steamship Company for the cancellation of the existing contract, was carried by a substantial majority. . . An amendment which way defeated was to the effect that the meeting views with alarm the suggestion that the East Coast line may he closed unless more support is forthcoming, and instructs the directors to send their produce hy railway at the earliest possible moment, and that the Railway Board he advised accordingly