Forum Archive Index - January 2001

["charlie brown" <gordy_gecko@hotmail.com>]

Ian

Thanks very much for your writings.  Being overseas it takes sometime for me 
to receive company newsletters and the like.

Hope that your knocking your head against a brick wall comes to fruition.  
It is high time that people like PH who used the company as a feeding trough 
cough up for their indiscretions.  Just the transactions disclosed in the 
2000 Annual Report made me laugh. A slap with a wet hanky is pathetic!!

Agree that the Company needs to take a good hard look at itself and its 
future direction. High time that they left the grey suits and 80's notions 
behind and got some new blood on board this venture.

Regards

Charles


>From: "Ian Andrews" <iandrews@ihug.co.nz>
>Reply-To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz
>To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
>Subject: Re: RE: [sharechat] INTEREST RATES
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:25:58 +1300
>
>Answering Charlie Brown's questions:
>1
>The Securities Commission has received all share trading records of WNC for 
>1999-2000 from WNC; & is "studying them in detail", but it is for the 
>purpose of advising the government on any changes required in Insider 
>Trading legislation. However, I want to see what arises from the study, 
>because I intend following it up. The Wellington decision-makers will be 
>back from holiday this week & they will be hearing from me. Ditto for the 
>Auckland Companies Office, who  showed me 5 months ago they were preparing 
>a prosecution recommendation for WNC directors for failing to file notices 
>when they issued new shares, despite having been previously warned & 
>agreeing it would "never happen again".(The non-filing meant it was 
>impossible for anyone trading WNC shares to know how many shares were on 
>issue, & specific requests I made to WNC for this information during this 
>time went unanswered). The wheels of justice grind slowly but [hopefully] 
>they grind exceedingly finely...
>
>2
>This question has been answered in a letter despatched to shareholders last 
>Friday. IT Media publishes "NZ Rugby World", "NZ Fishing World", "Rip It 
>Up" & will lauch a new business paper called "NZ Business Times". It runs 
>websites Flying Pig, Fire-Engine, Toast & CD Star. It produces a Sky TV 
>rugby programme called "Offside".A meeting will be called shortly [it had 
>better be in Auckland this time!] to approve the purchase by issue of 250 
>million shares at 6 cents each.
>WNC has a website at www.wilsonneillonthenet.com
>
>It is clear the company is reinventing itself again & if a new board takes 
>over, with no connections with the company's founders, it may have a 
>future. But I do note the disappointment shareholders will feel on seeing 
>the company lost $762,000 in the September half-year, on revenue of $7.1 
>million. It appears that, contrary to assurances, Cobb & Co ( which is a 
>growing brand) cannot stem the leaks in Radionet; which looks like a dead 
>duck. Igacu also seems to be performing well below forecasts.
>In the Annual Report written after two-thirds of the first half year was 
>completed, shareholders were told "the company can reasonably expect 
>significant growth in profitability for the financial year ending 31 March 
>2001"
>Shareholders are now told not only of actual losses at that time, but also 
>.."losses [will] continue in the next half-year".
>
>WNC has a current market capitalisation of about $27.5 million & 
>Shareholders Funds of $10.2 million, mostly represented by intangibles. 
>Directors will need to attend much more closely to issues of disclosure, 
>corporate governance & accurate forecasting in the current investment 
>environment to keep shareholders interested in continuing to pay 5 cents 
>per share. I doubt they will survive in the current form unless they get 
>the company into shape to apply for a Main Board listing ( but one could 
>say the same of a few Secondary Board companies ) . It's a shame for New 
>Zealand that we can't bottle the unbridled optimism of WNC investors.

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