CO-OPERATIVE MEAT WORKS
WAIROA FARMERS’ SCHEME.
PROPOSAL TO SELL. DEFEATED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Wairoa; Dec. 12. At a general meeting of shareholders of the Wairoa Farmers’. Co-operative Meat Company bn Saturday afternoon a motion to sell the works to a. new company about to be formed under the name of the .Wairoa. Farmers’ Meat Co., Ltd. and having as its shareholders the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Meat Co., Ltd., Nelsons, (N.Z.) Ltd., and the Gisborne Refrigerating Co., Ltd., was defeated, there being 344 votes fewer than the number required for a 75 per cent, majority. . ‘ At a large meeting of farmers and shareholders held previous to the general meeting on Saturday a resolution as outlined by the. convenor, Mr. T. Le C. Powdell, was unanimously carried, that a scheme similar to the methods employed by co-operative dairy factories—making a deduction annually against farmers’ outputs—be established for the ’Purpose of re-starting the works. \
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1932, Page 12
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