WOODVILLE

New Zealand Mail, 22 January 1902, Page 43

WOODVILLE

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) Wednesday, 7 p.m. The Rev 11. .T. Lewis has resigned charge of St. David’s congregation, and will shortly proceed to New Plymouth, to reside privately Duriug last year 85 persons were taken into custody on criminal charges in Woodvi lie. The following significant clause appears in the report to bo presented at the annual meeting of the North Island Bacon Company at Palmerston North on the 23rd inst.—“ Your board early last year was induced, through being promised strong support and supply of pigs, to make considerable additions and improvements to the building and plant. We now have one of the most complete, up-to-date factories in New Zealand, but have not been in a position to utilise the works to their full capacity to meet the demand for our cure. As the-directors find it imperative that the company should he run on broader lines, in order to meet the demands of suppliers for prompt cash payment, and also to place the company on a sounder commercial footing, proposals will be placed before you at the annual meeting with a view to having unallotted shares subscribed. l r our directors recognise that with sufficient capital, they have every prospect of doing a large and profitable business, and would appeal to our dairy farmers to support this company loyally, as the results of our operations and a now certain market prove that our shareholders can retain the business in their own hands.” The year’s working shows that there has been a loss of £774 10s Id, which includes £IOO written off the preliminary expense account.