"Onassis can now vote at "yard".

Belfast News-Letter - Wednesday 21 May 1969
 
"Mr Aristotle Onassis, Greek millionaire and husband of Jackie Kennedy, who holds £2,000,000 worth of shares in Messrs. Harland & Wolff, can now vote at company meetings."
The article states that an 11 year ban on foreign nationals holding shares from voting was lifted yesterday, when a special resolution giving effect to this procedure was passed unanimously at an "extraordinary general meeting" in Belfast. The ban had been introduced in 1858 by the chairmen, Sir Frederick Rebbeck, who feared that the yard would be taken over by foreign investors. They felt that by 1969 that the reintroduction of this voting rights would make any difference in the control of the company or lead to any take over moves. 

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