MOKAU AGAIN.

North Otago Times, 4 December 1911, Page 4

MOKAU AGAIN.

i Per Press Association. ' Palmcrston North, Dec. 3. The following communication"; hag been sent to Mr Robert M'Nab by the \ Hawkes Bay shareholders anddirectors of .the Mokau Company, all of ivhom are members';oi the.Oppo-, .•sitipii, and one of these (Mr ■MlLean) was a member of the Op-; position Parliamentary..party. They,intimate that he may make what ÜBe he thinks fit of it: '■' Although in politics we are supporters of the Reform Party; and are opposed o ;to the,policy of the present •Govern 1 ment, which you are supporting, We enter our most emphatic protest against the action of our party leaders and-those who are supporting them in the attitude they have ta k en '-up in reference to, the purchase of the Mokau Estate by-'the Mokau; Coal Company. We are shareholders in the company, some of us are'directors, some of us sold, the property to the company, and all are| intimately acquainted the circumstances connected, witb|: the purchase, We also know tne clrcumf stances '.under 1 wMcn you:, were,induc- v i td to take shares in the, and at "our request to ;becdme :tho' chairman. Not one of thoW-.ci'rcunvv stances reflect in any wayjU'poß'bbe action of the G6vernment.br' 'Upon /ourself; and although the campaign of slander ' is.'being carried; on; byi men of, our own party janj :byour own party leader in order to Btrike. a Wow" at the. Glovemnjenft and;to keep 70)1 out of public jpol this country,; 1 our. 'ideas of justice and I fair ; play compel us to well the people jof the Dominion, «or what our staltements are worth, that the charges': made, against yourself and the. Government; are entirely untrue, and in' oiir opinion are a disgrace to party politics.—(signed) Bernard* Chambers, T. Mason Chambers, | William Nelson, R, D. B. M'Lcan/B. Whyte." ■ ■ ■'■■''■