False Phone Call
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To PIM Editor Incorrect Statement About A Trading Company
ON May 2, we received a letter from a firm of solicitors, with a request that we publish the following in the Pacific Islands Monthly. It now is published accord ingly:
Mackay Pacific Trading Co.
In our issue of April, 1955, appeared the following statement: “It was stated in March PIM that Mackay Pacific Trading Com pany had been reorganised with out the inclusion of Mr. C. W.
Mansell, and would carry on.
However, subsequently some diffi culties developed, and Mackay Pacific Trading Co. was, later in March, put into liquidation.
Another company planned to en gage in trading in the Pacific Islands is in process of formation and registration.”
This statement was based on wrong information, and it was quite incorrect to state that some diffi culties developed, and Mackay Pacific Trading Co. was late in
March put into liquidation, andl another company planned to en in the Pacific Islands is in pr of formation and registry Mackay Pacific Limited is and been in active business, ano action whatever has been tJ towards its liquidation or is templated nor is the compani difficulties.
We sincerely regret the error any inconvenience or embar ment it has caused to Mai Pacific Limited.
Editorial Footnote
THE April paragraph was wr by the editor of the PIM the following circumstances, About the end of March, or * April, someone telephoned the editor, and said he was Mr. Kn (Chairman of Directors of Mac Pacific Ltd—usually called Max.
Pacific Trading Company).
The Editor had already discm this Company’s affairs with Knight on two occasions, and k that some reorganisation was g\ on. He had no reason to d<l that the person who addressed was Mr. Knight.
The person gave the editor n ous details about what he c<n the pending reorganisation of Company, and asked that they, published. The editor made a i of the conversation.
Later, on looking over the rv he decided that the publication most of the details could embarrassing to the persons o cerned so he decided to publish o the item that appeared to cono the public— namely, that the was being put into liquidation m a view to reconstruction.
The solicitors’ communication received with amazement—which j creased when we were later formed by Mr. Knight himself ft he had not telephoned the P 2 editor in late March, or given h any information at all.
We cannot imagine why we u\ supplied with this entirely ft statement —we now know ti Mackay Pacific Limited are functw ing normally under a Board Directors of which Mr. Knightt chairman—and we consequently he. made arrangements, not only publish this in the May issue PIM, but also to print this as. circular in advance, for widest pc sible distribution before the issue of PIM is printed.