A "TRUST" SQUABBLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10638, 17 May 1912, Page 4

A "TRUST" SQUABBLE.

The 'meeting of voters of the Masterton .'Trust Hand's Trust, convene'd for •last evening to "receive" the annual ireport and balance-sheet, resolved itself junto a mere .or 'iess elcGtidieeriug cam.pac.gn. It .wits unfortunate that <not more .than a sccro cf voters' ■\\o±< (present, and that the ,sp(ace at the disiposa'l of ithe newspapers will not permit of justice 'being dorie ito tins* ex'trajordiuary exhibition <Jf rhetoric and (irrelevancy Which was .tlhe outcome of the meeting. The balaiuce-sheet, ■through ifom-J fault which is not that of the wa;s n<Jt available iln a printed. ;fonr„ and, had to be read t'ix) the meeting. Of the twenty persons present (nine of whom were Trustees) probably nineteen, could have (Understood the contends of the 1 balance-sheet as presented; but bemuse, Apparently, one could not, or '.would no\ the who'll business was converted in/to a fiarce.' Had the voters' itaken a sufficient dutferast in the ■tlffains' : df Ithe Trust- to be present in ■anythiiiig like liunibt/'s, there would have been some excuse for a disousstfon on ithe question' ttf whether t*lie tbalanccHsheet shoiild be print l;l and. another irk' Citing ihekl'. The voters showed iby tlheir .failure to attend, (however, either that they are not miatlOriailly conceamedj in the Trust and its foalancc-sJheet, v or 'that they are quite (satisfied, ifj'om H.he personnel of the' ''Prosit, ithat the finances are in safe keeping." Much as ithe apathy of the vbteri in Trust imiattcrs is to be de-jp|!-orcJd', we ifia.il jt.o .see the 1 slightest jucttlficatiori for the calling of another meeting do Shear ian- aorimonious ckV--icussion oil questions rwdiich fhe averts ge' voter takes litffle «r no inteVes : t a 11. It Is. itrut' that the voters are entitled to a full istafc'emerrt of t-he financial 'aliEaJrs of Ulij Trust, and tha-? bd "given at a* period prior' to thV' ivirjiial eJecitfon ; !but to enablo this .to 'bo clone The date of tile annual ..meeting and dk'ction. is'liaulcl be 1 altered' ,so that a'reaisonalile time could .bs.ai•:lowed for itllie ito be .certified .to by the Audit Department.