MEAT SUPPLY CONTROL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 67, 20 March 1940, Page 6

MEAT SUPPLY CONTROL

SIR FRANCIS BOYS’ WORK NEW APPOINTMENTS. [ Per Press Association ] WELLINGTON, March 19. Further information relating to the appointments of Mr. H. S. E. Turner and Mr. R. S. Forsyth has been received by mail from London. Sir Francis Boys resigned from the post of Director of Meat and Live Stock on January 31. The Ministry of Food explained that Sir Francis, who was 70 years of age, was Director of Meat Supplies in the last war and it had 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 his work in preparing the scheme which, incidentally, is always referred to inside the Ministry as the Boys scheme as a measure of recognition accorded to its author within the department. As the work of controlling supplies of meat is so heavy—too heavy for one man—and is divided naturally into two sections, the Minister has appointed to succeed Sir Francis Mr. H. S. E. Turner as Director of Live Stock and Home-Produced Meat and Mr. Forsyth as Director of Imported Meat. Both have 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.