‘WOULD PULL YOUR NOS

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1929, Page 15

‘WOULD PULL YOUR NOS

DAIRY MEETING FIREWORK ,N;; DIRECTOR DEFENDS CHAR ACTE ■ " - \ 'A “THERE’S OPEN' SPACE OUTBID (By Wire—Special to News.) A Hamilton, Last Night The Hinuera Co-operation Dairy Co pany’s annual meetings are becom. notorious for rows. Last year the., bate of the day was as to whether b should be provided by the company, annual meetings. Again somethingthe nature of fireworks enlivened 1 annual meeting yesterday. The whole meeting was more or It ruffled despite tho fact that the bala) sheet was one of the best yet submit! by this very successful little compai The system of election of directors ivi questioned and at a subsequent met ing of-the board the directors decid to resign in a body and to seats. During the discussion of the company purchase of fertilisers jne of the dire tors, Mr. Ivan Black, said it had be put about by certain shareholders th he had been making money out of t shareholders by selling to them at fl price fertilisers which he had obtain at a cut rate. This, declared Mr. Bia with emphasis, -was an absolute lie.He proceeded to explain he had p himself to considerable trouble to obta a large quantity of fertilisers at a c rate on the very day that the conce sion closed. He then telephoned diite ent shareholders and informed them what he had done and offered them -tl manure at the same price at which 1 purchased it. His action had thus bee the means of saving those shareholde 15s per ton, a saving altogether of £7 He thought it his duty to inform tl meeting of these facts. “And,” he declared indignantly, “if man who has been putting the stoi about that I have been using my pos tion to make money myself hag an spark of manliness in him he will aft( hearing my explanation get up and tei der me a public apology.” Then dram: tically: “He’s in this room now.”

Mr. C. Scelly, Hinuera, sprang to lr feet. “I presume lam the man refei’re to by Mr. Black,” he said. “I amgla to hear his explanation but I. wiliong withdraw anything I have said.” Mr. Black: “Then all ! ' can say’i you are no man; you, haven’t of manliness in your whole constitl tion.” ■ ' ' ■■

Mr. Scelly: “I am as good a-manva you are, have been and ever will bi Mr. Black, and if you don’t think'/ am, there is an open space outside wher wo can decide the matter.” At

Mr. Black, excitedly: “Look here Scelly, if I were a younger man I woui take you by the nose and pull yoi right across this room.”

A. shareholder here intervened, pro testing that the language used by Mr Black was undignified for a Mr. Black: “I am a man first an< will not sit down under an insult lik< that because I happen to be a direc tor.” Other shareholders later supported Mr Black’s statement that he had sold then manures at the cut rate, effecting' i great saving. . . The matter was then dropped.