Sayings at Meeting of Oruru Dairy Co. Suppliers.

Northland Age, Volume 6, Issue 27, 25 March 1937, Page 3

Sayings at Meeting of Oruru Dairy Co. Suppliers.

The following wise or otherwise remarks are taken from the addresses of speakers at the meeting of Oruru Dairy Company suppliers. * * * * “If I tell you anything, you can rely on it being correct, from my point of view.”—Mr. W. A. Wilton. * * * * “Other Dairy Factories, smaller than Oruru have been given a zone; so why not Oruru.”—Mr. W. A. Wilton. * * * * “It did not matter what we asked for, we could not get it; the Commission always had an answer.”—Mr. J. Garton. * * * * “In my opinion, the Commission was biased, it was not out in the interests of the suppliers:”—Mr. W. A. Wilton. * * * * “ Your directors received such a staggering blow at the Commission sitting that they are not likely to forget.”—Mr. J. Garton. m * * m “If the statements we have heard tonight, are correct, then they show nothing less than graft and corruption.”—Mr. J. B. Kennedy. * * * * “Although we challenged the Commission’s figures on almost everything it was no good, they would not listen to us.”—Mr. J. Gaiton. ♦ * * C* “Kaitaia has always been aggressively in opposition to Oruru. They had deliberately canvassed our district for suppliers.”—Mr. W. A. Wilton. * * * * “I am prepared to repeat the figures I have given you, anywhere in New Zealand, but I am not prepared to accept the word of any Kaitaia director.”—Mr. W. A. Wilton. * * * * “Kaitaia is not a happy family. How many directors have they turned out in the last few years? They have their problems as we have ours.” —Mr. A. Garton. ♦ * * * “Although the Chairman, Mr. Hoskin, and Mr. Garton and Mr. Barriball put up a good fight for the Company before the Commission, we had no chance, as everything had been cut and dried.”—Mr. D. Tracey. • • • • “This is not the first time that the same people have come to ‘pinch’ something from us, as they are now trying to do, with our Dairy Factory, but let us stick to this.”—Mr. R. T. Wrathall. * * * * “The Commission was definitely hostile to the Oruru Company. One member was asked what would happen to Oruru if they refused to amalgamate with Kaitaia, and he replied, ‘Well, Oruru can drag along in the mud.”—Mr. W. A. Wilton. * * * * “The Commission kept us waiting for hours in Kaikohe while the members were sight-seeing in the Waipoua Forest, yet they said they were too busy to give time to come to this district and see for themselves the position of the Oruru Factory.” —Mr. J. Garton. * * * * “I consider that the Commission was definitely hostile to Oruru. I am satisfied that they came with their minds made up on the question. A member of the Commission stated that if Oruru did not agree to the proposals then Kaitaia could start collecting cream in Oruru after May 31.”—Mr. W. A. Wilton. * * * •* “The people of this area are committed to the expenditure for a new wharf at Mangonui; if the Oruru Dairy Factory closes then probably a rate will have to ue struck to pay for the wharf and the people of the Eastern area will also have to help to keep the ‘ditch’ open to Awanui. Probably there will be a boat to Mangonui only once a fortnight; the Bank at Mangonui may close.”—Mr. W. A. Wilton.