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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 314, 30 August 1932, Page 6

(ADVERTISEMENT) OPEN LETTER TO THE PUBLIC OF ROTORUA LET THE PUBLIC BE THE JUDGE THE COAL WAR IS ON We have been challenged and we gladly take up the challenge. An advertisement was published in Monday morning's "Post" stating that W. Dawson and Sons were responsible for misrepresenting facts. If the facts have been misrepresented that has not been the work of DAWSON AND SONS and we hereby invite the public to be the judge, safe in the knowledge that the public is solidly behind us. Here are the real facts and we challenge the Coal Dealers' Association, the firm who published the aforesaid advertisement, or anyone else to refute them. 1. Dawson and Sons are endeavouring to give the public of Rotorua a square deal in the coal trade by keeping prices down. 2. The coal dealers are trying to keep prices up. 3. A member of the Coal Dealers' Association claims that Dawson and Sons asked the coal dealers to form an association. We emphatically deny this and affirm that the facts are: — (a) Under instructions from the colliery proprietors, whom we represent, we joined the Coal Dealers' Association, but reluctantly and against our better judgment. (b) We withdrew from this association as soon as the Wilton Colleries would permit us. We withdrew gladly and have been happy about it ever since. (c) The rest of the coal dealers have been most unhappy about it and have made persistent efforts to get us back. They sent a representative member to our yard on two occasions to beseech us to rejoin. They held up a meeting for two hours in the hope that we would ehange our minds and join up and thereby keep prices and profits up. We refused and we still refuse and the public has got the benefit of low prices and good service. (4) The Coal Dealers' Association advertised their prices in the "Morning Post," but ceased to do so after they found that Dawson's prices were lower. In this advertisement it was stated that Wilton Coal would be charged at the coal dealers' j prices. This was inserted without Dawson and Son's consent and was contrary to fact. (5) We have been threatened with a boycott, so that we could not obtain carbonettes. We have been threatened over the telephone that a fund would be raised to put us out of business. We are still in business and we i intend to remain in business. We have the public behind us and the public i knows that we will keep the price | of coal at a fair level, despite the • fact that we might hurt the sensitive feelings of the Coal Dealers' Association or any members thereof. Yes ! YES ! LET THE PUBLIC BE THE JUDGE. The public is the judge and our enormous increase in output shows I that the verdict is going to Yours for service and economy, W. DAWSON AND SONS.