"Mac Won"

NZ Truth, 15 March 1924, Page 7

"Mac Won"

■» APPOINTMENT TO DAIRY CONTROL BOARD. After spending an awful lot of time walking around the subject to get his full measure, Cabinet has at last done what it should have done months ago — appointed J. B. McEwan as tho delegate for the proprietary interests m tho dairying industry to the Dairy Control Board. It is a mystery to most folks why the Government hesitated so long In making the appointment. "Truth" is not going to elucidate the mystery. . It is known that Cabinet didn't want Mac on tho board at all. Indeed, one of the Ministers said so — and almost vowed a vow that Mac would never see the board. Furthermore, Cabinet turned down Mac's nomination, and replied to the proprietors: "Choose ye some other — we will not stand for Mac!" But thc Vested Interests retorted that there was no other. Neither was there. Mac won. Who that knows Wellington at all doesn't know the big and breezy champion of the dairying industry! He wns a factory man m the beginning of things over here m tho days when dairying was m embryo. He was a coat-off demonstrator. It is so long ngo that '•Truth" forgets whether became to us from Canada or through Canada from Scotia. And look where he stands this day — four square to prosperity and head of a groat big firm that carries everything pertaining to the Innards of a dairy factory, besides bosaing butter Itself. Mr. J. B. McEwan married the songful daughter of the late Hon. George Fisher, and J.B. is therefore In-law to F. M. B. Fisher. "Dahn's" sister was "Wellington's sweetest and beat contralto. She and J.B. have a daughter who ls also highly gifted as a musician.