Ga Director's Election

Valid

IN the Court in Melbourne, on May 2, the Chief Justice, Sir Mellis Napier, held that there was no ground for complaining that a director of Guinea Airways, Ltd., Mr. W. I. Potter, had not been elected by the will of the majority of the company. He dismissed a claim for a declaration that the elec tion was void.

The plaintiff was Reginald Myles Ansett, company director, of Melbourne, and the defendants were Guinea Airways, Ltd., Adelaide, and William lan Potter, sharebroker, of Melbourne.

Ansett claimed a declaration that the purported election of Potter as a director of the company at an extraordinary gen eral meeting in March was null and void.

He claimed an injunction to restrain the company from allowing Potter to act as director of the company.

This legal squabble developed from a disagreement among GA shareholders on a proposed merger with Australian National Airways.

Four of the directors responsible for the merger plan resigned and at the elec tion of four others to fill their places at an extraordinary general meeting in March, five men were nominated by the pro-merger group, and five by the anti merger group.

The voting was close, but the pro merger group was successful. Shortly afterwards, Mr. R. M. Ansett (anti merger) announced that he intended to challenge the election of Mr. W. I. Pot ter (pro-merger).

Although Mr. Ansett has lost his case, there is no indication that the merger plan will be proceeded with.

Pilot-Officer Denis McCaig, who was recently reported to be missing on opera tions, is believed to be a prisoner of war.

He baled out over Cherso Island, south of Fiume, in the Adriatic, and is said to have escaped injury.

Mr. John Dos Passos. American novelist and writer, recently returned to the United States after several months in the Pacific collecting articles for an Ameri can magazine. He visited the Marshalls and Gilberts, Guam, Saipan, Iwo Jima, Philippines and New Caledonia.