THE MOKAU DEAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10494, 4 December 1911, Page 5

THE MOKAU DEAL.

SHAREHOLDERS SAY ALL IS RIGHT. (By Telegraph—PressAssociatioriJ' PtALMERSfTOify N., Last Night. The 1 folJbwing communication has ibeen sent to Mr Bdbert MaNfcib iby (Eawke'is Bay and Directors of tihe iMokaui (Xxmpany, all whom are nienibara of Jhe Opposition. One of these ; (Mr McLean) was- a m«m)W of thie Opiposinoii BarEameaiiifcary Party. They iatiimlate that he '(Mr MbNiab) may make what us© hie Make fit of dt:— "Although in pcftSetdes ,we are supporters of the Reform Plarty, and are; opposed to the policy of tha present yota arei srapppirting, we enter lour most emphatic, protest against jtihe action of :ouir JParty leaders;, amid those wlo are supjpritihg tihemt, in the attitude they mve taken; up in reference to 'the purchase of tW Mfc>kau estate' "by the Mofeau, Coal £?ompany. We are shareholder® in. the Company, and some of us axe Directors. Some of us sold the property to the Company, and alii are inttant•ately acquiaintedl witthi the onroum.stancea connected 1 with the purchase. We afeo know the cwtoumstanoes raider whfiidh you were induced to taJre (shares in, the Company and.at our ireqiuest to become cnaiirmlaii. ism tone of those circumstances!' rettectea art amy way upon the' action off the (Government or upon> yourselfr, ana. (although'the campaign, of .slander is ibetioic carried on by men. of our own Tjartv, and by own party leaders, m Si to strife a blowat the Gteivern•nwrnt and to keep you ont of the pub(Mo Mfe of this country, our ideas of ij,ustrice and) fair ptey compel US to *el the people of the DW«.mon for (wtat our statements aa;e worth, tliat tike Charges made agamsfc yoawseJif tend the 1 'Giovernment are entirely untrue, and in our opmiW * mrace to party poW*.— (S*gn®J>JLnard CftamW L. MwOhhm,bers, William Nelson, B. D- D. 31c(Leaw, D. Whyte."