CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1915, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

FARMERS' CO-OI'KRATIVE SOCIETY. fo tin- Editor. 'Sir—To let tins readers of Mr. J. O. Taylor's letter of .1 mi': IS see the correctness of his report re my correction, 1 would respectfully ask you to pulilisli tlie following extract from the llawera, and Norman'by Star:— "Mr. C T. Davidson, of 'Kaimata, writes witli reference to our report of the meeting of the Farmers' Co-operative Society's meeting denying that he asked the chairman why tin; directors did not call up share capital. As there wa.s evidently a misunderstanding, we referred tlie matter to tlie chairman of the meeting, and Mr. Kuekoridge cleared the matter up by stating that it was not 'Mr. Davidson, but Mr. Dawson, who asked tlie question, and to 'Mr. Dawson he replied, mentioning his name. No doubt the mistake) arose owing to a typographical error, as the result of which the: question was wrongly attributed to Mr. Davidson, which, of course, wo regret."

Now, 'Mr. Editor, how docs Mr. X, 0. Taylor stand in connection with.his letter? We find him trying to lower me in the eyes of your readers, for which I Imp.- Mr. J. 0. Taylor will apologise through your valuable paper to save himself further trouble. I should like here to let tlie press Tcnow the reason why I corrected it. T have sold in the Mahoe, Lowgartb, Stratford, CardilV am; Kaimata districts a great number of shares to the. dill'erent farmers, and if these fanners saw my name down as having asked tlie chairman the question already corrected, those farmers could say I did not know what I had asked them'to undertake, so f considered it my duty to correct you under the circumstances. Now. dealing with Mr. J. 0. Taylor's remarks about directors waving Hags of their own individual loyally to the funds of the Society, I think, after taking into consideration the fact thatlMr. J. 0. Taylor stood for director and could only get 2!) votes, including his own vote, and that the, highest director got '275 votes, it shows very Lad taste on 'Mr. Taylor's part to use tlie above remarks. It is no wonder 'lie feels sorry. 1 quite think he does, after holding the floor as he did, and receiving such a defeat at tlie hands of the shareholders, dust a word or two about my five-share banner. This represents .CSO capital as follows: C 7 It's paid-up capital anJC42 His subscribed capital, which Mr. Taylor describes as being nothing more than childish: vet we find it is too big an order for Mr. Tavlor to follow up to the present time. ''We will Jo.ve him out of taking up £">o ■wortK'of shares and just look at the principl' of Ids arguments. We find Mr. J. 0. 'layW woiTvin:.' —or pretending to worry—about what'he describes as "a ly.if, of air," namely. 012,000 goodwill. Now, he says my move to set an example — which, bv tlio wav, is being followed —• will more than pav it o!!',' is ehihlisli; yet 'Mr. ,T. 0. Taylor did not set an example, but is going to cry down my example-set .by oilier-, whether itp too big or too small for him to follow/ This sort of maii will never beiiclit Mis district, and cannot lie taken very seriously. We find Mr. Taylor lieiie.' sorry at mv correction, vet he took tlie advantage in his letter of letting his renders know the press reported biiu wrongly, anil we can't look upon Mr. Taylor as being sincere, in his rem'.irks. 1 would ask tlie Jiareholdcrs in future to watch tlie progress of our Society, and to support the' Society in every way ■possible. I cannot condescend to carry on a correspondence with 'Mr. J. <">. Tavlor. even after he has apologised for misrepresenting me. Thanking yon. Mr. Editor,-! am ,etc, 0. T. D,V'VVnSON. Kaimata. 2S/fi/ln.