CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1917, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

SELF-ELECTED AND UNSPEAKABLE DIRECTORS. To the Editor. Sir.—AVill you kindly allow me to say »i word or two in reply to your good old friend of Waitui who has so much, to say of a derogatory nature respecting the present directors of the Moa Dairy Company? In the first place, Mr. Bakewell s ays that the said directors are self-elected. I being one of those directors, beg to point out that in all probability Mr. Bakcwcll is more responsible for my election than I am myself, hence it would be nearer tlirs. fact for Mr. Bakcwcll to inform your readers that at least one of the directors is Bakcwcll elected. The new articles of association of the Moa Dairy Company were adopted on the 25th day of June, 1910, that is seven years ago on the 25th of June last, just two years, one month and five days before I came to this district. At that meeting, on the 25th dune, 1310, when those articles of association were adopted, it is almost a moral certainty that Mr. Bakewell was there ''airing his eloquence" as his tendency is. But whether the Waitui orator was or was not present on that occasion he approved of those adopted articles when he became a shareholder and allowed them all those years to govern the company withouif protest. Now, as article 81 says that ''every retiring director shall hold office until his successor is appointed," and as no successor was nominated, nor appointed, how am I ' : self-elected ?" Why, sir, a child ought to have sense enough to know that the articles at associu-' tion adopted and approved of by Mr'. Robert Bakewell, poet, orator and general harangucr, of Waitui, securely placed me in the position and sealed me there for another year, if I choose to so remain. This bitter exposure ought to convince your readers that the confident statements of our oratorical friend ought to be well salted before swallowed. Then, if he was anxious to have himself or some friend nominated, article 84 would have informed him how to proceed. Nor is it any good complaining that he did not know the date fixed for the general meeting as that has been a fixture for several years, as the first Saturday in August. Your readers will thus see that it was not the "selfelected" and "unspeakable directors" that were at fault, but the laxity of Mr. Robert Bakewell, poet, orator and general haranguer, Waitui. Our good friend went to sleep, and he slept and slumbered overmuch, and when he did nvake up he found to his disgivst that article 84 had, in conjunction with iFather Time, slammed the door of opportunity in his face, and he, like Jack Bunting, 'Knew not what to say, and so he "swore!" Now, 1 suppose Mr. Rakcwell was well within his rights in saying nasty words in order to soothe hi* disturbed feelings, but he should have addressed them to himself in private, and not paraded them in 'the public eye, as if he had discovered something that was worthy of general attention. —I am. etc., J. 0. TAYLOR. Waiongona, 22/3/17.