The Frozen Meat Company

Southland Times, Issue 133357, 20 January 1896, Page 3

The Frozen Meat Company

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— l think Dr Hodgkinson slightly misapprehends the drift of my letter. I maintain that writing down capita!, or selling new shares, or any other such scheme will no moie assure the success of the company in the future than it has done in the past. The whole trouble has arisen through the sheepfarmers forsaking their own company for a rival institution, and nothing but their turning from their evil ways in this respect can save the company or retrieve their characters. Failing this all connected with it (shareholders and sheep-farmers alike) must suffer loss. The success of the company being assured by the general support of the farmers in the way of business, financing would become easy. There is a great difference between financing a successful and a failing business. — I am, etc., Shareholder. 18th Jan. TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — "Small Shareholder," of Oreti Plains, is writing under the lash applied by Dr. Hodgkinson and myself to his class.' Oreti Plains is the Goshen of Southland and there should be no small shareholders there ; bnt it is, I suppose, small number of shares and large flock of shetp. But there is hope for those who can still feel. Had this man been wise he had said nothing in defence of conduct which is incapable of defence, for every word be has written only gives emphasis to what Dr. Hodgkinson and I have aaid and makes more apparent the injustice that called forth our strictures, the truth of which is admitted. But they have heard these truths before and they are troubled with it and want to hear no more from Boxton and Hodgkinson at their meetings or in the press— that troubles them also. They "love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil," and bo the Press must be gagged to accommodate small shareholders in the land of Goshen. There was no impatience with those who advocated the adoption, of the proposals, who took up most of the time of the meeting. Stamping with the feet is a very bad way of replying to arguments, and writing under a norn de plume against men who stand forward on the platform to challenge all and sundry and write their names to their letters is cowardly. Had tbiß Oreti Plains man been a large shareholder, as he undoubtedly ought to have been, he would have had no complaint against Dr. Hodgkinson and I, as our strictures would not have applied to him ; but as it is he would like to treat us in the way some judges in the olden times treated prisoners, by ordering them to be "hit on the mouth." — I am, etc., 18th Jan. T. Buxton.