Thames Star FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928. AMALGAMATED DAIRIES, LTD.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17438, 24 August 1928, Page 4

Thames Star

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928. AMALGAMATED DAIRIES, LTD.

“With malice towards none; with charity for all; with firmneee in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” —Lincoln.

Whilst explaining the -constitution of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., to the annual meeting of suppliers of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company at Hamilton, Mr H. H. Sterling, general manager of the company, commented very strongly on the methods adopted by the people who, lie said, had centred on a campaign of falsehood regarding the new selling organisation. The people, he said, had even descended to filching

a document, divorcing certain extracts from its context, and 'had used these extracts to falsify the position with regard to Amalgamated Dairies. Such action was worthy only of the strongest condemnation, and it had been done with the deliberate intention of disturbing the minds of the- suppliers. When people relied on such methods as he had described - , it surely branded their cause as rotten, dammed from the start and scarcely worthy of a reply. It had been suggested that the directors of Amalgamated Dairies were lining their pockets with gold out of commissions paid by the producers. The speaker gave this rumour the lie direct, 'and declared that in order to relieve the minds' of the suppliers, on the matter, it had been decided to publish the eonstition of Amalgamated Dairies in full, and suppliers, having perused them, must have realised how baseless the rumours circulated were. Mr Sterling stressed the extent of the control which. the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company had over Amalgamated Dairies. The directorate, he said, consisted of four men —Mr W. Goodfellow, Mr J. B. Wright, Mr Dynes Fulton, and the speaker, for the time being, as general manager of the company. The constitution so provided, that should a dispute arise which could not be settled amicably, it was competent for the company’s directors to go to the Court and ask for a winding-up pf Amalgamated Dairies. What further control, he asked, could the Dairy Company hold in the matter. The speaker related the circumstances which led to the establishment of Amalgamated Dairies, which organisation, he said, was one of the greatest selling schemes ever conceived in connection with dairying in this country. The explanation given by Mr Sterling Avill go far to contradict the many rumours that have been circulating lately, tand instill confidence in the big company.