CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD
New Personnel Selected I'ri'TAWA, Dee. 3. The Minister ui 1. :■< • ''ommeree, Mr W. D Euler, an, cu that the Canadian Wheat Board had been reorganised with Mr James H. Murray (Winnipeg) as chairman and Mr George H. Mclvor (Winnipeg) vice-chairman, and Mr Denn A. M. Shaw (Saskatoon) the third member.
The appointment of the new personnel was made at a meeting of the Cabinet Council following the receipt of resignations from Messrs. John I. McFarland, D L. smith and H. C. Grant Murray, the latter of whom has been vice-president and general manager of the Alberta Pacific Grain Co. Associated with Mr McFarland for several years, Mr Mcfvbr has been manager of the selling agency of the board. Mr Shaw is head of the faculty of agriculture at the University ui Saskatchewan.
Mr Euler announced that the new board will initiate a policy of selling wheat to have our surplus restored to the normal basis', but there will be no “fire sale” of wheat. It will be for sale at competitive values and will not be held at exhorbitant premiums over ntlmr wheats. The Advisory Board of seven farmers, millers and grainmen is being abolished. A Cabinet committee consisting of Messrs. Eifler, Gardiner, Crerar and Dunning will continue in an advisory capacit'-’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 300, 5 December 1935, Page 5
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