OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26122, 26 May 1950, Page 7

OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION

SIR LESLIE PLUMMER RESIGNS POST ANNOUNCEMENT BY MR MAURICE WEBB (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. May 25. Further big changes in the British East African groundnut scheme are expected as the result of the resignation yesterday of Sir Leslie Plummer, chairman of the Overseas Food Corporation. The British Minister of Food (Mr lyfaurice Webb) has been examining the corporation’s activities. Mr Webb is said to be determined to cut unnecessary expenditure. There *is no question of the groundnut project be-

ing abandoned, but the emphasis is likely to swing from the specific growing of food crops for Britain, over to long-term 'colonial development. Sir Leslie Plummer's resignation was announced by Mr Webb in the House of Commons yesterday. Loud Opposition cheers greeted the announcement. Mr Webb said that “in the li"ht of all the circumstances” Sir Leslie Plummer had agreed to rel’nquish the chairmarshio on June 30. Suitable compensation would be paid to him. Mr Webb said that the Government oarticularly recognised Sir Lesie Plummer’s" service in init’aling the Que?nsl:nd-British Food Corporation, which had made considerable since it v as founded two year'- t o. Sir Leslie Plummer, who r<»reived £5OOO a year, was the eighth h’gh official of the Overseas Food Corporation to resign in eight months.