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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 150, 29 May 1886, Page 3

I STOCK SALE, FEILDING. THURSDAY, JUNE 10. HALCOMBE AND SHERWILL will sell as above — 100 mixed weaners 20 2 and 2£-yr steers 80 mixed weaners 10 18-months steers 49 2 and 2£-yr steers 24 fat cows 20 2 and 2-J-yr mixed catile 10 dairy cows G forward cows 100 6-tooth fat wethers 50 woolly lambs 100 shorn lambs 100 store ewes 100 good Lincoln ewes, in lamb 140 ewes in lamb 70 woolly lambs Sale at 1 p.m. No horses. BOROUGH SALE YARDS, PALM. ERSTON. THURSDAY, 3rd JUNE. STEVENS AND GORTON will sell by public auction as above — ■ 10 fat bullocks 12 forward bullocks 40 8-yr bullocks 5 milch cows 20 mixed cattle 7 yearling heifers (quiet) 100 good ewes in lamb 150 ewes in lamb 100 Romney ewes in lamb to Romney rams 50 ewes in lamb 200 good wethers Sale at 1 o'clock. Further entries solicited. STEVENS & GORTON, Auctioneers. FREEMAN R. JACKSON'S STOCK SALES For June. Waverley Friday, June 4 St. Hill street Wednesday, June 9 Waverley Friday, June 18 St. Hill street Wednesday, June 23 And at St. Hill Street every Saturday, for Horses, Drays, Harness and Poultry. St. Hill Street Sales coimnence at noon ; Waverley at 1.80 p.m. 'FREEMAN R. JACKSON, Auctioneer, Wanganui and Waverley. ' NOTICE. IN thanking my numerous customers for their liberal patronage during the eight years I liave been in business in Feilding, I now have to inform them it is my intention to relinquish business, and leave the District. I have therefore to roquest that all Outstanding Accounts be paid forthwith, or not later than June 24th, 1886. E. B. GICHARD. TO THE POLICY-HOLDERS NEW . ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION. rl ENTLEMEN,— Being a candidate T for election to the Central Board, I have the honor to solicit your support in favor of my candidature. Without setting forth my reasons, in detail, I desire to say briefly that the position of a nominated member is to me an unsatisfactory position. Ono year's experience in connection with the proceedings of the Board has convinced me that for one who desires to effect the greatest possible amount of good for the Policy-holders — for one who desires to be entirely free and unfettered — it is essential that he should bo an elected member of the Board. " I feel that I should be greatly to blame if, for the purpose of gaining support, I were to make any statement regarding the proceedings of the Uoard which could in any degree tend to injure the business of the Association. I have too great a regard' for the welfare of the Association to do that ; but at the same time I feel bound to say, in general terms, that many of its transactions have been of a very unsatisfactory character : this I attribute almost entirely to the defective constitution of the Board. Three proposals affecting the constitution of the Board will in a few days be submitted to tho Policy- holders, and upon these they will be called upon to voto. They are : — (1.) To hand the Association back to the Government. To this lam very much opposed, as the business of the Association has, I am glad to say, assumed the lines of a commercial undertaking. To take it back to the "official " groove of a Government department would, to my mind, be a retrograde step. (2.) To create a Board consisting of three official members — the Secretary of tho Treasury, the Solicitor-U-eneral, and the Public Trustee — the Government to appoint one of these official members to be chairman. I cannot see that such a Board would in any respect be an improvement upon the existing Board, as it would still contain the objectionable official element, and would leave the door I open to the exercise of political patronage. (3.) To create a Board of seven members — four to be elected and three nominated, but the nominated members not to be Government officials. The Board to elect its own chairman. lam strongly in favor of this last proposal, which is the suggesof Mr Fisher — because, while it gives to the Government a f air.proportion of representation, it also p>ivoß to the Policyholders some real power of control. The main object to be aimed at is to place the affairs of the Association upon a purely business basis, and this end would, I think, be attained by the carrying of Mr Fisher's proposal. Should you do me the honor to accord me your support I return you my honest assurance that no effort will be wanting on my part to secure the best possible results for the Policy-holders as a body. I have the honor to bo, Yours obediently, G. V. SHANNON.