LORD BAKNBY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20088, 18 November 1930, Page 10

LORD BAKNBY.

VISIT TO DOMINION. finance and INDUSTRY to i UK STUDIED. | THE PRESS Special Scnict.j j W Kdild.Mi U.I.N'. November 17. "With the intention of spending a month in dm Dominion l,ord llarnhy arrived in Wel'iin-ton by the Maungan.ui to-day. He is a distinguished (tcjnrc in finance and industry in Kngiiind, and is principal n{ the firm of Francis Yvilley and Co., Bradford anrt Boston. V\ 1 il-- in New Zealand, which he confesses he tn.-s looked fori vim! keenly to visiting, he will study Dominion con'iitions in those sph-eres which wide interests inehuk'. 11« is at present, a at Government lll.Util . | Ijord 11a in by i-. a divccLcr oi' LloydBunk, with which the National Bank oi .Now Zealand U affiliated, and a <iirector ol' tho Coiiinic-rcial l-nion Asinrance Company. He is a member, 100, oi' the Central I'jlcctricit.v Hoard. The Board controls the .supply of electricity throughout He is a pa.sU | iiresident r,f tho I'ederation of British Industries. In the wool industry the (inn ol Fiancis Willey and Co. is proininent. fxird JJarubv is chairman ot tlw Contra) i'hoployc-rt' organisation (or wool textiles and is chairman ct thv Woo! Industries Uesoarch Association more oli-en reterred to as the ■\v/kA." to which New Zealand and all the Dominions contribute. He is one or the tour British representatives to the Advisory Committee or" tlio tv.-ononiic Council of the LeagUn of Nations at Geneva, from the outbreak of the war ho served with the Sherwood Hangers in Galiipoli, and .Macedonia, and was mentioned in dispatches. He was recalled, however, to organise the War Office wool purchases. and was Controller of Wool I Suppli'iw from i£'lt> to 1919. directing j the purchaT" of British, Australian, New Zealand, and South African wool ! clips. Lord Barnby was a member ot j the ,-oirnlus Government Property Disposals Board which was set up to liquidate JL'fioO.OOU.OOO worth of supplies. Flo N a rr.enibc-r of the Development Council of the Department oi Overseas Trade.

''A-i ja-jiicipal of the tin:: of Francis Wii!-. y and t'omnr.ny, vviio are large buyers , 1 X<"-,v Zealand uool, T have natural!;,' U-<eii lonj£ connected with the Dominion." said Tvord "arnhy. "The !of&! lirni i', at Christehurch, with Mr Frank Clark as principal. 1 shall bo tin; South Island shortly." l.ord Harniiy proi'orrod to postpone • I;£<:ua.sion of the wool industry and wool research iu Falkland, as well as t'ne subject oi limpire trade, ur-til l.'Uur on in his v*if;it. Not only an outstandinrr figure in hiioim-.ss and linance. I-o:-d H urn by is al-nioi-t as prominent in hpc.-rt. He has Keen well '.mown a, .Master of tha Hianlrncv Fox IJounds since 1019. and r.n nolo player is a mcra'ocr of the Hurliupchani Committi-e, rlio p-T.'crnirig I'cjfiy nf liritish polo.