WAIROA FARMERS’ CO-OP.
MOTION TO SELL DEFEATED [Per United Press Association.] WAIROA, December 12. At a general meeting of shareholders of-the Wairoa Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Meat Company on Saturday afternoon a motion to sell the works to a new company about to be formed under the name of the Wairoa Farmers’ Meat Company Ltd., and having as its shareholders the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Meat Company Ltd., Nelsons (N.Z.) Ltd., and the Gisborne Refrigerating Company Ltd., was defeated, there being 344 votes fewer than were required wanted to carry a 75 percent, majority. At a large meeting of farmer's and shareholders held prior to the general meeting a resolution as outlined by the convener, Mr T. le C. Powdrell, was unanimously carried:— “ That a scheme similar to the methods employed by co-operative dairy factories making a deduction annually against the farmers' outputs be established for the purpose of restarting the local meat works.”
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Evening Star, Issue 21284, 13 December 1932, Page 5
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