DIRECTOR’S RETIREMENT FROM LIVESTOCK DIVISION

Putaruru Press, Volume XXVII, Issue 1363, 26 January 1950, Page 6

DIRECTOR’S RETIREMENT FROM LIVESTOCK DIVISION

LONG SERVICE COMPLETED Mr. W. C. Barry’s Administration The retirement is announced of Mr W. C. Barry, M.R.C.V.S., from the position of director of the Livestock division, Department of Agriculture, Wellington, after 35 years of service. For 16 years he has been director. In his early administration of the livestock division Mr Barry took an active part in providing an adequate staff for the work of meat inspection. The revision of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act and its replacement by the Meat Act, 1939, and the regulations under this Act, stand as a monument to Mr Barry. The lifting of the embargo on the introduction of stock direct from Great Britain, a measure which came into effect in recent years, has been recommended by Mr Barry for many years, suitable safeguards and precautions being advocated at the same time. Mr Barry was responsible for an amendment to the Stock Act being pafsed in 1945 which made compulsory the tuberculin test of herds supplying milk for town supply and which provided for further extension of tuberculin testing of cattle generally. Opposition raised on the question of compens, lion by townmilk supply producers has meant that the measure has not yet become fully operative, but it is expected that adjustment of this difficulty will shortly be made. Besides his work as a divisional director, Mr Barry was appointed chairman and registrar of the Stock remedies Registration Board in 1936; in the same year he was appointed chairman of the Veterinary Surgeons Board. In 1943 he was appointed chairman of the Veterinary Services Committee, the findings of which resulted in the Veterinary Services Act of 1946. Under the Act the Veterinary Services Council was established, on which Mr Barry has been a Government nominee since its inception.