BUTCHERS’ HALL

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 March 1946, Page 4

BUTCHERS’ HALL

NEW ZEALAND’S GIFT TO LONDON FUND TRIBUTES TO DOMINION (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 1. A cheque for £lOOO has been given by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board to the Worshipful Company of Butchers as a contribution to its fund for building Butchers’ Hall in London. It was presented by Mr. S. A. Chisholm, the board’s London manager, to Mr. Josiah Swain, Master of the company at a luncheon given to-day by the company in Mr. Chisholm’s honour at the Armourers’ Hall. The company, which has records tracing back to the tenth century, had its hall destroyed by a flying bomb during the war. Mr. Chisholm said that the New Zealand board on learning of the fund immediately desired to be associated with it. He wished Mr. Swain well in his forthcoming visit to Em-, pire and Latin American countries, and added: “I am sure that in no place will you receive a warmer welcome than in New Zealand.”

Mr. Swain, expressing thanks to the board, declared that the gift would be placed at the “top of the list.” He added that he would take on his travels a “book of pilgrimage and progress,” containing messages of goodwill towards people in the rfleat trade in all the countries he visited. Already he had messages from the Lord Mayor of London, the Duke of Norfolk, Sir John Anderson and Mr. James Turner.

Extending a welcome to Mr. Chisholm as the new manager of the New Zealand board, Mr. Swain added: “I sometimes wonder whether we realise what a wonderful country New Zealand must be.” In spite of the war not only were her lamb and mutton exports increased, as compared with pre-war, but her sheep population was higher than ever. He paid a tribute to ’ New Zealand, which, he said, had spared neither time nor lives in giving Britain wonderful help.