CORRESPONDENCE

Southland Times, Issue 19523, 24 May 1922, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

Letters must be written in ink and on one side of the paper. Unless a signature, not necessarily for publication, accompanies a letter as a guarantee of good faith it will not be considered. An asterisk attached to the signature to a published letter denotes that some portion has been deleted by the Editor, a right which is exercised in questions of public policy, libel, good taste and fair play, but at no other time. DAIRY PRODUCE POOL. To the Editor. Sir, —I notice that a meeting is called to consider the proposed Dairy Produce Pool I hope that the Directors of our Southland Factories will see to it that we southerners get proper representation on the directorate. It looks to me as if the Board would be dominated by the North Islanders. I understand that one North Island company alone controls about one-third of the New Zealand output, and naturally they will want to be represented accordingly, and it seems to me that Southland Factory Directors will eventually have to do as they are told. When the C.W.S. movement was started, the North Island Factories went in strongly for it so far as talking was concerned, and when it came to actual support of the C.W.S., the North Islanders nearly all pulled out and left it to a number of the South Island Factories to support the scheme. Unless we are going to get better representation than has been indicated already, then I think we are better to stand out of it. I am, etc, SOUTHLANDER. RE N.Z. FARMERS’ FERTILIZER COMPANY LTD. To the Editor. Sir, —Referring to the advertisement appearing in your issue calling a meeting of shareholders for next Saturday. As one of the Committee in charge of the proceedings taken by the Litigant Shareholders and having had special opportunities for knowing the details in connection with the case between the Litigants and the Company, I cannot too strongly condemn the attempt now being made by the Directors to upset the agreement entered into by Mr W. Ford and myself on behalf of the Southern Litigant Shareholders, which, by the way, was considered by many to be too liberal to the Company. I trust that a strongly worded protest will be sent forward from that meeting and that it will be supported by a large body of Southland Shareholders. If a protest be futile it may be necessary to resort to other means to safeguard the interests of the several hundreds of shareholders of the Company in Southland. I am, etc., E. BOWMAR.