THE MILLOWNERS' ANNUAL MEETING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18266, 27 December 1924, Page 13

THE MILLOWNERS' ANNUAL MEETING.

i,!. • TO THE IBTTOB 07 "TSt riBSS." -In your issue of December S|s4t]i you' reported the annual meeting Sttno millowners, and in that Tcport .ipStffre* were contained some Tomarks at me, which wore thrown c|pcrbSß the table by Mr .T. B. Jones. T firstly, to his reference to huntSfag with the hounds and running with -ifs^?" : ' naTf V an d secondly,* to men' like fewyself being unfair to the farmers. g|#ho.:fl.rst.remark does not concern mfe ueh, aano one ever died from call insults of that nature, or iy other, for that mutter. Couth e. second, remark, as to being well, I take it that it. was c;ilto d0../me. .barm, but. will y' missfirc ,wh.en I have had m v fy' position,' briefly, is this: l'\ had 'contradicted Mr T. B. . tirade-agaiiist the Arbitration tho legal profession, etc., and rkor also, I backed my opinion ing that the -millowners would iao to increase their charges for ig.cven if rit were costing us a illings. extra "in wages, as the j community wero watching our mts very closely, and I said, , that I was going to move in xection. Well, what has taken Miljowncrs' Association r^c f < ng the farmer to the extent of 1000, or 5 per cent, to meet an 3in only a.;few. shillings, to' my mind, is a Jewish method oning up the extra cost. As to B. Jones saying tliat men, in tho tion ' like ./myself would be to the farmer,. I would ask a n. Who arc unfair to the —men who calculate in the above r A men who are prepared to carry f tho burden and say nothing it; and 1 who do not believe in sing it, on -system to the extent already been done! In Mr T. ss.'s. attempt to array me .against mer, he may trip at the Si-st and, to use a term, ,ve to star and start again, cs -'says there are too-many like in the Association. If there en more laßt Tuesday the incharges would never have como However,, the millowners are the right, way towards buying g 'plants instead of threshers, heat'this country wants, as well etc., ■r J. J. MATTHEWS, iora,- December 26th.