HARBOUR BOARD COOL STORES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 439, 3 December 1930, Page 6

HARBOUR BOARD COOL STORES

Sir,—ln your report of a diicussioM on Harbour Board loan, at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, you report Mr Patterson, a member of th* Harbour Board, as saying:— “Tho Farmers’ Union and th* Agricultural Association had bee* slinging off and had been doing it for years. The Chamber should have somebody to reply to that, M» Donald Ross wandered all over th* place and had no facts. He had said that the cool stores had made a los* last year, where as matter of fact, the cool stores had made money.” Now sir, as Mr Patterson is chair. man of the cool stores committee, th* public have a right to imagine that h* would know what he was talking about, but such is not the ease. Th* cool stores account for last yea* shows that the year started with a debit balance of £47 Is fid, and ended with a credit of £174 19s Id. This t* tho ordinary person would mean that the cool stores had made a profit of £221 0s 7d, but to attain that position , the account rc'/ivcd a donation of £7OO J from the general account. This mean* that the cool stores account went to tho bad £498 19s sd, and Mr Donald Ross is perfectly correct in saying that the cool stores, last year, made a los* —I am., etc. , ADHIKARI.