MEAT CONTROL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 135, 19 March 1940, Page 5

MEAT CONTROL.

NEW ZEALANDERS’ POSTS FURTHER DETAILS REVIEWED. • . i ' (Per press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. Further information relating to theappointments of Mr H. S. B; Turner and Mr R. S. Forsyth have been received by mail from London. Sir Francis Boys resigned from the post of director of meat and livestock oil January 31. The Ministry of Food explained that Sir Francis; who is 70 years of ago, was Director of 'Meat Supplies in the last war, arid it had been well understood that, while ho was prepared to return to get the new scheme of control working, he wished subsequently to make way for a younger man. This he had done, and tho [Minister was indebted to him for his work in preparing v the scheme, which, incidentally, it always referred to inside the. Ministry as “the Boys’ .Scheme,” a »neasure of recognition accorded to its author within the Department.

. As . the work of controlling, supplies of meat is so heavy—too heavy for one man—and • is divided naturally into two sections,'the Minister appointed to succeed Sir Francis, Mr Turner, as Director of Livestock and Homo Produced Meat, and Mr Forsyth as Director.. pf. Imported Meat. Both .have had ’considerable experience -of the' meat trade, both in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand. Mr Turner was formerly New Zealand manager of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, and Mr Forsyth was formerly London manager of the Now Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. *