BRITAIN’S MEAT SUPPLIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 March 1940, Page 4

BRITAIN’S MEAT SUPPLIES

N.Z. appointments. [per press association.] WELLINGTON, March 19. Further information relating to the appointments of Mr Turner and Mr Forsyth was received by mail from London. Sir Francis Boys resigned from the post of Director of Meat and Livestock on January 31. The Ministry of Food explained that Sir F. Boys, who is 70 years of age, was Director of Meat Supplies in the last war, and it has been well understood that while he 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 the Minister was indebted to him for the work in preparing a scheme which, incidentally, is always referred to inside the Ministry as the Boys’ scheme, a measure of recognition accorded to its author within the Department. As the work of controlling the supplies of meat is so heavy—too heavy for one man —and is divided naturally into two sections, the Minister appointed to succeed Sir F. Boys, Mr H. S. E. Turner as Director of Livestock and Home Produced Meat, and Mr Forsyth as Director of Imported Meat. Both had considerable experience of the meat trade, both in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Mr Turner was formerly New Zealand manager of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, and Mr Forsyth was formerly London manager of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board.