AFRAID OF VESTEY'S.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1414, 11 October 1923, Page 5

AFRAID OF VESTEY'S.

COMPANY WANTS ASSURANCES. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) GISBORNE, Wednesday. A meeting ,of shareholders in the Poverty Bay Meat Company yesterday considered the statement of Mr Jones that the Meat Board members were unanimously of opinion that they could raise no reasonable objection to Vestey Brothers purchasing the Poverty Bay Company's works if they closed and dismantled their present works, and that this Vestey's had agreed to do. It was unanimously decided to adopt the directors' resolution not to accept the Board's invitation for a conference with the company unless assurances were first given that Mr Jones' remarks did not amount to a pre-judgment of the Board; that the Board would be prepared to weigh the whole 1 piatter, both from the point of view of the shareholders of the company and that of the whole meat growers in the Dominion; and that the Board and Mr Jessep (vice-chairmai.) disclose with whom they had been in communication in the matter, so that the company might know whom it was fighting. Failing the giving of these assurances and the correspondence being disclosed, the directors recommend that the shareholders place full responsibility for the right and proper thing being done upon the Government and the Meat Board.