Wednesday, 29 October 2014 12:02

Van der Poel elected

Written by Rural News Group

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RETIRING Fonterra director Jim van der Poel is back on the board of DairyNZ having retired from it in 2009. He was one of five candidates for Barbara Kuriger’s seat on the board following Kuriger’s resignation in order to stand for Parliament.

“We had a fantastic line-up of candidates, all of whom could have added to the board, but the successful candidate is Jim van der Poel,” chairman John Luxton told the annual meeting.

Luxton, who has chaired DairyNZ since it was formed in 2007 from the merger of Dexcel and Dairy Insight, is one of three farmer-elected directors due to retire by rotation next year. The other two are Ben Allomes and Michael Spaans.

Turnout by voter was 19.31% with a total of 2719 valid ballots cast. Weighted votes were 525,897,398 giving a 28.46% turnout. DairyNZ was unable to provide the breakdown of votes before this article went to press. The unsuccessful candidates were Donna Smit, Greg Maughan, Murray Jamieson, and Dirk Sieling.

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