MR. E. ISAACS' CANDIDATURE AT THE GAS COMPANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6149, 2 August 1881, Page 6

MR. E. ISAACS' CANDIDATURE AT THE GAS COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—l was rather surprised when reading Saturday's issue of your journal the report o! the election of directors for tha Auckland Gas Company, which took place last Friday, wherein I am reported to have polled 309 votes, not mentioning the proxies that I held for another 546 votes, which amounted to a total of 855. I feel satisfied this omission was not intended, but I am anxious to show my supporters that I really stood in a better position than your statement leads the public to believe. I have now respectfully to request you to publish this letter and complaint against the proceedings and mode of .election. Firstly, I think it was imperative thp.t in the advertisement for the election it should have notified, that, as well as the two retiring directors were eligible for re-election ; that, in the event of a poll being daclared, all proxies must be lodged at the company's office at least 48 hours before the election. Had this been done my proxies would have been lodged in due course. Very few. appear to have Known that such a by-law was in existence, even some of the directors themselves. Secondly : I thinkit would only have been fair if the secretary had intimated the same to me in conversation relative to proxies. Thirdly: When I informed the chairman at the meeting that I had proxies representing two thousand shares, I desired to know in what order the election was to proceed. Had I been informed there and theu that they were informal, I had then present sufficient shareholders (who merely came to hear the report and its adoption) to have returned me by a majority of over one hundred votes irrespective of proxies; but feeling satisfied that no question would be raised they left. Fourthly : That some of the proxies were recorded, and when about one-fourth of them were got through a happy thought struck somebody that my proxies were out of order, and they were all omitted, thus ending this extraordinary piece of business, showing the actual winning candidate to be the loser. Apologising for trespassing so much upon your time and space,—l am, 4c., Edwabd Isaacs.

August 1, 1881. [It was stated in the report that the proxies held by Mr, Isaacs were disallowed as being informal, and consequently wore not taken into account. —Ed.]