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Well, I wrote to them last week thanking them for their help over the accounting matter. I’ve just had a reply. They’ve written to say we were right to decide to reduce costs, which is nice to know. But they want us to cut back even more. Barry suggested that I pass it on to the accounts department to see if they could make more savings. But I think we’ve gone as far as we can. So I’m just going to leave it for the moment. If they’re really insistent, they’ll write again. But I don’t think I need to do anything aobut it right now.

I’ve just had a letter from them about that actually. They want to know what we’re going to do. They didn’t agree with our decision to expand with Australia, so now they want to know if we’re proposing to go into New Zealand as well, I don’t want to give too much away until we know what they are doing. I was going to write and ask for further details of their expansion scheme, but I’ve decide not to. I think it will be better done face to face. So I asked my secretary to set something out for next week. And hopefully it will be fairly friendly