WAIMATE INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 27, 26 November 1898, Page 3

WAIMATE INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERA-TIVE ASSOCIATION.

1 Wr (to rnK kjjii'oi:.) Sir — The clininrnn's repoi't of the ahoy« AxsociH'ion which npiieaiect in your issue of Mi/V. 19th, is bo complicated nnd mythical that it, tcqunes h I'hi'aduiplna lawyer of no mean ordoi to unia\p| lis imnteries, especially after m-iui lining' the balance sheet, because he (the 0 ainimii) lays consideiable stiess upon the revive fund, which he maintains is tile strong jioint in the Association's finance. Now, Sir, 1 cer'ainly must, give the Association thepahn ' i tl.e ii't of juggJeiy in finance of this le- ] ort. He a'so complains still oi the shcnjue&s oi i *'l^djtoj.'jn.u^>n_j]ie. busiufcy?. This is "pulTun old soie. "*Some few ,i eat n ago at a sh -> :' holdeis' meeting, the board was lennnded tnar, this ilimculh would arise after Ihey had n'tered (he m!o.-> to allow the manager the light to give unlimited oieriit willsout any «liscieuon wha^ner, but, of ooui!>e, tho chauiran and boanl were of a { voiy diffnront opinion then, and now they aie \ leaping ihe lewiud of their own folly, Tho ' eliairmnn ami boaid after having the ba'anea i shuet letumed back at that meeting foi 101 cmmideiß'ion. weie veiy strongly preyed \b\ a coiibideiable nntnbei ot shaiohoideis to {establish a permanent leseive fund, but, of Iconise, the\ would not Now, Sit, until 1 lje li<>ard of MmiUgoment gtupples with this question, thib dillicuity vviil not be&artiiounted oi lemovpH. Li;t the chairman take this advice at the meeting of the new boaid, that is, sink all pairv leeling when dealing with the business ot the Association, and discuss and deliberate without bias, and then I have no • doubt that the business of the Association will be done moxe sucoesfuily during the connm; }dni', and pioJuce far moie katibfactory lesults to the shareholders and the Association generally. — I am, etc., A (SharkqoiiDisu, Waimate, November 27th t lS9d.

(to the editor.) Rib, — It is a great pity that " Tommy Atkins " ever wrote such a letrer as appeared over his signature in your last issue ; the poor school children will be getting sughtly jmxed up in this flag business. Your coi respondent 1 6 all at sea, or iat her he is not, for it he I*d been at &ea, he would not have wiitten s..ch twaddle. Your hist correspondent is quite coriect, anit "Tommy Aikint» " i,- all wiong. The flag that floats on the flag pole in the f-ohoul ground it. tiie Pilot Jack of ihe British mercantile maune. Kyouiemove t ie white b Tuei fioni it. you have the Union Jack pure and simple. But T.A. has made a wonderful clisco\fi\, " tlie signal for a pilot is a plain blue flag." 1 wonder wheie he cliscoveied it? He must caitainly have had a veiy bad attack of the "blues" when he penned his letter. In the whole of the 1 ( J llags which compose the univeisal flag code of signals, theie is no such thing as a " pl»vm blue" flag, the ntwest to plain blue being the •' Blue Peter " (letter V in the code) which i* flown at the foremast head prior to a vens«l leaving port, T.A. is coneot in saying the '• pilot flies a red and white flag," a? soon i\s an English pilot boards a vessel, he run? the red and white flag qp fts ft signal thftt said vessel has a pilot aboard. The flag (Pilot ■Jack) is a'so used in the British Admiia.lty o -a& of signals, \vb<ere it vepreaeqts the letter ■ V —I am, *te, Signal.