NEW LONDON MANAGER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 125, 27 May 1944, Page 4

NEW LONDON MANAGER

NEW ZEALAND MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board announces the appointment of Mr. S. A. Chisholm as London manager for the board, filling the position held for many years by the late Mr. Robert S. Forsyth. Mr. Chisholm, who is at present Director of Stabilisation, will take up his new duties in a few months' time He is a businessman with wide experience of primary produce marketing in New Zealand and overseas. In the earlier part of his career he was a livestock auctioneer in Taranaki. He was connected later with primary produce export from New Zealand. From 1936’t0 1939, he travelled extensively in Australia, United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, preparatory to taking a senior position in London with a Tooley Street provision firm. In England he was associated with a number of wartime trade bodies, representing the provision trade in dealing with the British Ministry of Food. He returned to New Zealand early in 1942, and was appointed Deputy Food and Rationing Controller, a position he occupied until he became Director of Stabilisation, in August last year.