THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 384, 13 July 1889, Page 6

THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY.

The threatened split between Mr Dawes, the new Providence to the New Zealand Shipping Company and Tyser and Co., will probably be an accomplished fact by the time these lines are in print. At the Board meeting this week the energetic Dawes moved and (with some difficulty) carried a resolution to the effect that Mr Tyser be henceforward excluded from the Board meetings. There was, he said, neither' reason nor precedent for a Company's brokers being treated otherwise than as employees. Messrs Gellattly, who do an enormous business for the British India Company, had nevej" dreamed of demanding ad-

■ ;?■". - mittance to Board meetings. The ordinary course was that the directors gave their orders to the Secretary and, the Secretary, transmitted them to the brokers, and n'e"" thought the New Zealand Shipping Company should follow the ordinary course. (Sir Charles Clifford said the large interest which Mr Tyser had in the Company al-" most justified his desire to be present 'at their meetings. Mr Dawes disagreed. He though t that was another good reason for Tyser's exclusion. The truth was, their tongues were all tied in Mr Tyser's • presence, " and free discussion rendered impossible. Tyser of course on his side declares that Dawes wanted to make a place for Strickland, and his (Tyser) attending Board meetings practically rendered Strickland's duties nugatory. This may or may- not be- so, but Dawes is "" cerbainly right in insisting that the New - Zealand Shipping Company should conduct their business after the same "manner ' as * other companies". "Hitherto there have"' been half-a-dozen heads in the office, <; tE*> mean there to 'be only one," says the* doughty Dawes. Dawes's great ambition is*; to be able to send goods all over, the worlds oriVne bifl of lading. He hopes,'' too, to"* greatly cbeapen the carriage ot frozen meat, and-to often fresh markets.