EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15270, 21 June 1923, Page 5

EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

ORGANISATION AMENDED.

RETIREMENT OF MANAGER. GENEROUS COMPENSATION GIVEN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, June 19. The Board of Management of the Empire Exhibition announces that in consequence,of a rearrangement of the organisation, Mr V. F. Wintour has relinquished the general managership, and has accepted the post of adviser to the board, It is learned that this is practically the outcome of tho recent Sir W. Joynson Hicks' report, as the result of which the management has been vested in a" hoardj comprising Lord Devonshire, chairman; Mr Stevenson (commercial adviser to the Colonial Office), vice-chairman; Lieu-tenant-General Sir Travers Clarke (late Adjutant-General to War Office), deputy chairman; with executive for the administration of the exhibition, Sir Henry McMahon (Chairman of the Finance Committee), Sir Charles McLeod (member of a firm of Calcutta merchants), and Sir James Allen (representing the Dominions). ■ Sir James Allen states that the conditions under which Mr Wintour was manager and Sir Travers Clarke executive administrator became unworkable, for which reason it was amicably arranged for Mr Wintour to retire on generous compensatory terms based on 2* years' expectancy, including a salary allowance of £2OOO yearly, plus moral damage owing to the loss of the managership. Enquiries elsewhere suggest that the probable total compensation will be £IO,OOO. Mr Wintour's position as adviser does not carry a salary, being included in the compensation. Over 90 per cent of the exhibition space has been applied for. The changes in the management will not interfere with the opening.