RUMOUR UNFOUNDED
Sale of Meat Export Finn
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Mastertoil, February 5.
Rumours that the well-known meat export firm of Borthwick and Sons (A’sia), Ltd., had sold out to a cooperative 1 wholesale society are characterised by Mr. P. J. Borthwick, a director of the firm, as “all rot.” Lately rumours of an alleged sale have persisted in usually well-informed circles in Wairarapa and Wellington., When questioned 'Mr. Borthwick emphatically denied that tliqre was the slightest tincture of truth in the statements that his firm had sold out. “There is nothing in the rumours at all,” he said. “I do not know their origin, but I can tell you this, and you can quote me on it, that as long as there is a Borthwick alive our business is definitely not. for sale.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 113, 6 February 1936, Page 8
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134RUMOUR UNFOUNDED Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 113, 6 February 1936, Page 8
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