RUGBY ROAD CREAMERY.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1917, Page 3

RUGBY ROAD CREAMERY.

SECESSION FROM MIDHIRST. (From Our Own Correspondent). Meetings have lately been held at the school, Norfolk road, of shareholders of the Midhirst Dairy Factory Company, who have been suppliers to that company's Rugby Road Creamery, and who have of late been far from satisfied with the general state of affairs so far as their creamery is concerned, and at one of these meetings, held on the 31st July nit., four of their number were chosen to interview the directors of the company for the purpose of finding on what terms they could, as a body, secede from the company, also to see the directors of the Tariki Dairy Company to learn whether in the event of such secession being accomplished they could join the latter.

On Monday, the Gth instant, another meeting was held, convened by these delegates, to receive the report of the results of their interviews, when there was a ge-od representative gathering of the Rugby Road Creamery suppliers.

Mr. A. W. West was voted to the chair.

The delegates reported that the Midhirst directors would put no obstacle in the way to prevent the proposed secession, and that by mutual agreement Mr. Hugh Baily, of New Plymouth, had been appointed to assess the financial footing on which the separation should be effected. Also that the Tariki Company through its directors, had signified its willingness to take over the Rugby Road Creamery, with the suppliers as shareholder on condition that the the financing of the transfer was borne by the latter. To put matters in proper order the following resolutions were unanimously carried:— That this meeting of Midhirst Dairy Company Shareholders, supplying the Rugby Road Creamery, resolve to withdraw from the Midhirst Co-operative Dairy Factory Company, an 4 Tliat the Rugby Road Creamery suppliers join the Tariki Dairy Factory Co. A ballot was taken for the election of four to represent the suppliers on the board of directors of the Tariki Company, as provisional directors, with power to act for the completion of the proposed amalgamation, when Messrs H. Rumball, A. Head, J. Kendrick and A. W. West were elected. A vote of thanks to the chair concluded the meeting.